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To: LTBH who wrote (732)	5/20/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: David K.	Respond to of 14778

Of topic , but maybe someone here can help me? Does anyone know what kind of software and hardware is necessary to create a message board ( unrelated to investments) in the SI format? How much would it cost? Thanks for your help.

To: LTBH who wrote (732)	5/21/1998 12:11:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

Operating Systems...NT..Win95..Dual Boot Lots of good info on operating systems in this post #reply-4229815 Zeuspaul

To: LTBH who wrote (732)	5/21/1998 1:53:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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

To: LTBH who wrote (732)	5/21/1998 8:37:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Yes, I boot any of DOS, Win 3.11, Win 95, and either of two flavors of Win NT. The primary Win NT (and all but one disk partition) are NTFS. The other Win NT is on the FAT partition with the other OS's and is there for the purpose of repairing the primary WIN NT. What I meant by my comment is that there is a tremendous amount I don't know about these operating systems. I would hardly characterize myself as an expert on any of them, so one looking for "expert" assistance is likely to be disappointed by what I can tell them. Of course you're right about backups being what you need and like individually. I was offering my take on it. As a technology CD-R is pretty well settled, finally. I still recommend against CD-RW or any writable DVD, partly for the reason you said (unsettled technology) and partly because I've concluded that rewritable media are not what you want for backup unless forced into it by cost, simply because media recycling FORCES you to lose something you've backed up. I have had miserable experience with that, having on more than one occasion already written older the backup old enough not to contain my corrupting updates. I admit this is probably peculiar to a development environment. In any case, CD-Rs have reached the point where cost is very low unless you must back up ACTIVE multi-gigabyte files. Incidentally, I believe the best first-stage backup is a hard disk, preferably on a different system in the network. Spots