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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7484)	5/16/1999 5:28:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>The idea of having a second operations os, ready to go in the face of a primary os failure, is a good one. Thanks for bringing it up <gg>... oh, and thanks too for pointing out why it would never work..<G> I know..oour interpretations differed a bit. It'll work, but it won't normally work as a clone of a working one. The only time that works is if the clone is very early in the configuration cycle of the original. Ususally just installed with, perhaps, some basic apps such as browser, etc. (Even there you run into drive letter problems). As you conjecture, it COULD work as a clone on an identical machine, but my advice is don't try it. The machine would have to be identical in hardware and configuration because, remember, the NT you clone carries its hardware configuration with it. Not normally practical. (Conceivably practical in a corporate roll-out. Corporate weenies like to think so, which makes the worker bees howl against one-size-fits-all, which ain't ever so. Them worker bees can sting you pretty good, as most corporate weenies who try it find out. Often on their way into the "skilled labor pool" <heh-heh>.) What does work (I do it) is to keep a parallel machine which is somwhat out of date but can be brought up to speed reasonably quickly. I use it in parallel with my main PC. In fact, for certain apps, it's ahead. I don't actually sync them up completely periodically, but from time to time I play catch up. The gist is that if my main environment goes away, I can be back up pretty quickly, though it's always a royal PITA. I've had more occasions to prove this than I really wanted ... Again, this is apps and OS. My data has a different backup plan entirely, which is not under discussion here. An important point. Spots