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To: Jon Tara who wrote (14340)	11/25/2003 1:05:47 PM
From: Fargonaut	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Yeah, I have never used the sector-by-sector option. I think it's for special uses like forensic quality imaging. My approach as a non-professional is to back up the operating system only periodically. If you get a hacker or real bad virus, and you are mirroring the OS, both the original and the copy are toast. So you don't want an up-to-the-minute copy. Email, bookmarks, text-audio-graphic data are kept on a separate partition and mirrored in my system. Hackers and viruses are less likely to attack here, the bigger risk seems to be disk crash, so here you do want an up-to-the-minute copy. Make sense? :o) I think some of this stuff I just do because I like to tinker... (edit) the main advantage here is that when I restore an OS with an image, I don't have to update (or lose) data that was newer than the OS image. F

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