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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mr.mark who wrote (9148)	10/24/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

I use Drive Image to back up the C: partition of my main machine (which is a 6GB 4k-cluster NTFS partition), and also to backup my laptop, which is networked to my main machine. I use high-compression to back up my C: partition to a separate 2GB SCSI drive. My C: partition isn't full, or else the image wouldn't fit on a 2GB drive even with high compression. When the backup is done, I burn the image onto a CD-R. I don't have CD-RW drive but I'm happy. My Plextor 8/20 burns at 8x speed on media that costs a dollar and can be read on anything. I back up my other NTFS partitions, which are larger, to DAT tape using an HP 1533A DDS-2 drive (8GB per tape). That way, when my C: drive gets scrambled by a software problem, I restore it from a Drive Image CD-R, and then I can run the tape restore program from the restored C: to get back my other partitions. I have a Zip 250, but even that would take too many expensive disks to back up my machine, and the backup would run slower. I used to have a JAZ 2GB, but don't any more because I find them to be the least reliable device I've ever used. I've opened and returned four of them (and yes my SCSI chain is properly terminated). Maybe it's must my luck, but I can't get JAZ2's to work reliably. I replaced the JAZ2 with a regular internal hard drive and have had no further problems. To back up my Win98 laptop, I had to go through a few contortions to get the networked MSDOS client running on it, which I boot off a floppy. (This is because my CardBus networking card turns off when you "Restart in MSDOS Mode" out of Windows, so I can't use DOS networking facilities once I've booted Windows.) It may not have been mentioned on this thread that Drive Image is a DOS program, not a Windows application. Once I have a DOS network drive established, which is mapped to a large partition on my main NT machine, Drive Image will back up to it over the network. Then I burn it onto a CD-R that my laptop's CD drive can read. I always put Drive Image itself onto the same CD along with the image (it only takes a little space), so that the CD-R is a self-contained rescue disk once you boot DOS from a floppy. There is a new program called Norton Ghost (I didn't realize Peter Norton was that old :-0) that supposedly does the same thing as drive image. I have no experience with that program. Does anybody else? Regards, --QwikSand