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To: Spots who wrote (1690)	7/12/1998 1:46:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

>> Back to the KOT (keep on trucking) drive concept. Recent experience and thoughts...<< Yes, Yes and Yes...all good points The most notable advantage is guts. I have no fear. I can install any program or piece of hardware and be back in business in short order if something goes wrong. I have used this restore feature once already. What used to be a major setback is now just an annoyance. My system design concept is still evolving. At first I thought the KOT drive would be a clone of the working drive. It has not worked out that way. My KOT drive has three levels of backup. Each level is a working OS on a separate active partition on the KOT drive. Two partitions are hidden using the Partition Magic hide feature. The most recent backup is available as a boot OS if needed. I test the backup boot drive after a copy operation to make sure that the backup system works. The hidden partitions are not assigned drive letters by the OS. I name the drives (volumes/levels) with the date of the backup to avoid confusion. The first level is a clean OS + Partition Magic. The second level is level one with Internet access added. The third level is my current working level. This includes a word processor, spread sheet, Adaptec SCSI software. CDR mastering software, FTP... Size becomes an issue here. Hopefully I will not have to go back to level one or level two ( I am not a software developer so I do not need that level of purity). I have used 604 MB of a 6.4 GB drive for the current working configuration. With a little cleanup it might be 580MB +/-. How does virtual memory work? When I backup I backup an entire partition. The current partition size is 1.6 GB of which 604 MB is used. Can I backup the 1.6 GB and then resize the backup to 630 MB? Windows allocates space for virtual memory. Do I risk intruding on this space if I size a partition down after a backup? I think I should set the virtual memory to a fixed size. Will I have to add this amount to the total MB used? My first preference is for one large C drive. I do not think this is going to happen. I would like to work CDR, CDWR into the solution. This brings in a 650 MB barrier. I could bump it to 800 MB or so If I use Drive Image with compression. I am not a compression fan. I will have to partition the working drive or use a smaller working drive. I cringe at the thought of a 1 GB drive. Drive letters will become an issue when I partition the working drive and install secondary applications on the who knows what drive letter. This will only become a problem when I add or delete another drive. Vacillating It might make sense to have a small C drive followed by a larger applications drive. This would maintain the drive letters C and D for the primary working system. Maybe I need one of those 11.5 GB Maxtors that Dave talks about or perhaps one of the new IBM 16 GB drives for the KOT unit<g> When to backup and what to overwrite? Good questions. I am maintaining my level one and level two backups on the KOT drive. The level three (current working configuration) is backed up once a week. I agree this is a little risky and decision prone as I overwrite last week's backup. I do not want a closet full of backup discs for my home application. (This is not a mission critical setup). I will bring the now working CDWR into the mix. I will make CDR backups of level one, two and three. In addition I will make rolling CDWR backups of level three, perhaps once a month with two months in reserve. The applications partition I do not have one yet Zeuspaul ps The above refers to my two IDE drives with Win95. The two SCSI Win98 drives are dormant for now.

To: Spots who wrote (1690)	7/13/1998 9:27:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

I think Drive Image or Ghost are perfect solutions for this type of app. Both are easy to use and work well over the network and give you true sector based backups. Disk Image can backup a multi-boot machine with multiple primary c's (95, NT, and OS/2) with boot maanager installed and restore all in one fell swoop and even compress and encrypt the image. Highly recommend. Must be run from boot floppy though. BTW: Golden Hawk is still not nearly coaster proof as is Easy CD Creator Deluxe. Zeus, The other problem you report seems to indicate that there is more than 74 mins of audio on the disk and it won't copy it. I have no figured out how to copy disks with this size problem yet. Any help would be appreciated... Sean Sean