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Re: backup programs

Leon Wood
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:44:00 -0500


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Stahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 30, 1999 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: backup programs


>I'm using PowerQuest's DriveImage 2.0, and am VERY impressed with it so
far.
>It creates an entire hard disk image, so you can re-install your entire
hard
>disk in about 20 minutes... plus it supports ext2 partitions!  It also has
a
>feature to back up to Zip drives in particular.

How about when you're going the other way, from your backup medium (say a
Zip disk) onto the hard drive?  I presume it has to been done at the DOS
level.  What about DOS drivers?  Here's where Dell's refusal to provide DOS
PCMCIA drivers is a real limitation.

Leon Wood


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