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To: Zeddie88 who wrote (9132)	10/23/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: wily	of 14778

Zeddie, DI is fine for a one-disk system, but it tends to eat up the gigabytes as the image (using compression) is about half the size of the object. So it depends how big your disk is. Having your image on a second disk gives you a little more protection against physical drive failure. RetireSoon mentions that he puts his programs on a separate logical drive from the OS. I hadn't thought about it before (didn't really know you could do it), but this will reduce the size of your image: The OS is generally what pukes and needs fixing so no need to keep an image of your programs. RS: Great idea -- gonna try that. I already keep my data on a separate disk. I don't back it up either. I probably don't realize the danger I'm in... Been thinking about getting one of those CDRW's. Maybe a UPS too. w

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