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To: denni who wrote (60852)	7/20/1998 1:34:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Denni - Re: "do you do a mirror backup of your hd so that if it dies you can boot off the backup hd. if so what command/software do you use? " No - I don't do anything that sophisticated. I did, however, format the new drive as a Windows 95 Bootable Disk with all the Win95 and system files copied to the drive. So, it will boot the machine but it will be "current" to the last time I copied all the WIndows System and registry files. For standard backup I use Novastor's Novadisk which I find quite adequate. Backup files are written to compressed files on the backup drive in a Folder that I designate for this purpose. After a periodic backup, I remove the Backup Drive and store it offline. I figure that it will have a lot less chance of failing if I only use it for backup operations - period! Paul

To: denni who wrote (60852)	7/20/1998 6:28:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

denni - with the low cost of disks these days, I use NT mirroring to protect against disk failure. If the disk fails I don't even go down, let alone lose data. This can also be done with Win9X but requires you to use a controller that does disk mirroring in the controller so that it is invisible to the OS. There are several on the market, both SCSI and IDE, which support this. Note this is no substitute for backup, which I mostly use to protect myself from my own stupidity (cleaning out folders which actually have stuff I need in them, for example).