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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC )

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To: Surfer who wrote (14319)11/25/2003 6:08:51 AM
From: Jon Tara  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Drive Backup can run from:

- A CD. If you buy it on a CD, there's your CD. If you buy it online, and do a bit of fiddling, you can make a CD.

- A floppy. Yup, a floppy. They pull some neat tricks to do it, but they do it. It is compressed on the floppy. During boot-up they create a RAM drive, and uncompress onto the RAM drive.

- From a DOS partition on your hard drive. It doesn't need very much space. Not more than a couple (or maybe 3?) megabytes.

- From Windows XP (if Windows XP is still working...). (Not from Windows Server 2003 - yet...) Good for making your weekly backups. It will reboot your machine to do the actual backup. But you set-up the backup in Windows.

I use it with Paragon's Boot Manager, and install it into a small DOS partition. I have a floppy handy in case it should ever fail to boot.

But my emergency posture is plug in the backup disk and get back up in a matter of minutes.
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