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To: Spots who wrote (5252)	1/18/1999 2:16:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

If the purpose of the backup OS is ONLY to allow recovery when the primary fails, I understand the current design to also include Internet access. backing it up for KOT purposes yields vanishing returns, simply because you never update the backup OS once it's established. The concept is experimental and Clarence knows it. I think the KOT will be updated and altered as strengths and weaknesses are identified. At minimum Partition Magic and Drive Image will be upgraded with newer versions as they are developed. If it gets clobbered, you can recreate it using the primary OS. How does one recreate using the Primary OS? To recreate from square one requires a new install of Win98. The Win98 install may require cracking the case and recabling to address the installation issues discussed before WRT to two harddrives. After Win98 is installed one needs to set up the ISP accounts for access to the Internet. Install Partition Magic, Drive Image and the other software noted in your previous posts. Then NT is installed and configured. That sounds like a days work to me for someone with experience. If, however, you use the backup for another purpose too, THEN it would be worthwhile considering its backup strategy more aggressively. How aggressive would depend upon how much work it would take to recreate it assuming the primary OS is still available. I believe this best describes the current situation. I was fishing for a strategy. As originally expressed by Clarence a logical approach to a restore strategy would involve restoring the KOT from the primary NT OS. To that end I suggested using Partition Magic's 4.0 (now native NT) to clone the KOT from a primary NT OS boot. The cloned partition would reside as a hidden partition on the NT drive. The option to restore would also be initiated from a primary NT boot. This argument favors the smaller (500MB) KOT partition as one will lose the equivalent space on the primary drive. Zeuspaul