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

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5058)	1/15/1999 9:16:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Not exactly. The first purpose of the backup NT is to try to recover relatively simple things. The first thing is to rescue non-backed-up data. I don't care how rigorous your backups are (and mine aren't all that great), when the crash comes you're bound to want to get a SOMETHING you were doing. Second, you can recover simple config booboos, such as you've edited the boot.ini file and, there's no better term, f*ked it up royally. The ^&@#* machine won't boot without it, but it's just a text file... Third, as you learn more about the systems you're running you can back up critical smaller things, such as the registry hives (yes, just like the ones that hold bees or make you itch when you're allergic -- exactly the same in all respects), which can be restored from the backup NT. This level takes time and effort, which I STRONGLY recommend to everyone with the technical ability, but definitely not for the beginner. Should be pursued gradually. You MUST feel comfortable in doing it, not compelled, or it will do more harm than good. Fourth, closely related to third (in that it requires strategic tools and backups), you can repair certain physical errors, even boot sector viruses possibly, caused accidentally or maliciously, from an environment where you have full control of all facilities. Edit: Up to this point, if you succeed, you have preserved ALL of your current NT facilities -- applications, data, whatever. If you fail, then you resort to ... Only after these fail, insofar as you have implemented them based on your current state of knowledge, would I resort to a DI restore, which is rather drastic. Sure it avoids figuring out what's going on (which may be your current state of knowledge), but screw it up and where's your next step? Well, it's ... Finally, as you have already noted, suppose you do everything you can to recover, blow that, restore the DI, that goes to hell, what next? You're backup NT is there, ready and waiting <GGG>. Then you use your backup to get on SI and say, "Spots, you told me so ..." <GGGGG>. Spots PS. You have a great advantage over me in that you can boot your backup independently (via the bios) where I have to boot my backup from the same hard drive as my main OS. You can therefore recover from more failures than I can. Till (and if) Jon deliver's my new BH6 PCs, that is <G>.