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To: LTBH who wrote (732)	5/21/1998 1:53:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) of 14778

Backup Solutions I could partition my drive and keep 3 Gg or less to match a tape backup system. I have followed tape only to a very limited extent. It seems to me there are as many variations of tape as there are of CDxxx. For $240 I can get an IBM Deskstar 6.4 GB harddrive. This would match the size of my existing drive. I have not checked tape drive prices but the second harddrive seems like an economical solution to me. If I wanted to dedicate a second harddrive as a backup drive what are the practical implications? As you indicated there is software that enables automated tape backup. I am not aware of automated disc to disc backup. I would guess there is a simple procedure to backup the entire drive. ( copy and paste the C drive?) Would the second drive be formatted as a boot disc? Would it be an identical clone? Would one merely change the position on the IDE controller from slave to master to boot from the backup drive? Zeuspaul

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