Having Trouble backing up to DVD

I was backing up my files to dvd useing windows backup and restore feature.

It got 25% through when it told me to insert a new disk to contiue.

it said the disk had to have the label " JAY 31/03/2010 DRIVE 1 ".

but this is too long to have as a label "windows doesnt acctually let you name it this long".

I tried naming it something else but it resulted in a volume label error on the backup which it askes you again to rename the label.

So how do i backup if i cant give it the label it needs.

also i looked at the back of the disk and it seems to have only burned to a tiny fraction of the disk instead of useing the whole space. Any ideas?

Thanks for looking.

Yeah i know there cheap but at the moment if its not free then i cant have...

I will back up internal for now but i would really like a disk backup (untill i get around to getting an external (my 500gb broke))

But the main problem is that the label it wants me to give the dvd is too long and my computer will not alow more than 16 characters for a label.

I dont understand why its asing me to do something which the computer doesnt allow.

I dunno, there the cheap 50 for a tenner kind.

But why would the label you can give your dvd during format matter on the kind of dvd you have.

Surely its up to windows what you can label a dvd.