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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (2491)	9/14/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>> poor backup strategy. Hmm. How? It doesn't seem any worse than any other copy operation as a backup. Clearly it's not a real-time backup, but as I understand it, Dave is allowing for the stripe set to crash with a backup on a separate disk. The only added risk I see over any other copy-backup strategy is that the backup will be on the same physical drive as the system partition. My experience has been it's the system partition that is most likely to get taken out by lightening (at least in my PCs <g>). If this is generally true (rather than just my experience), there may be a slight added risk, but not much. Even if the system partition gets taken out, Dave could still probably recover the data from the quiescent backup partition. Am I missing a point? Spots

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (2491)	9/14/1998 10:58:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Respond to of 14778

(Grin) This "backup chide" reminds me of an exchange we once had! You infer too much from my post. Rest assured, Sean, that this will not be my sole, or even primary backup strategy (as I indicated during our exchange.) I'm also doing the following: -vital written data (dissertation, etc.) to floppy every time work session complete -Other data to zip and/or Sparq drive cartridges, as updated. -data backed up to notebook each night via home LAN As you, Zeuspaul, and others have noted, different backup methods serve different purposes. The reason I'm using extra drives for backup is that for things like storing sucessive drive images for testing/configuring/troubleshooting, they simply can't be beat. Anything else would be massively more time consuming, so much so as to make the tweaking I wish to do impractical. Thanks, BTW, for your thoughts in the past regarding various backup programs and methods. I've found them helpful in more than one case. Regards, Dave