Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

[Steve Browne]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 06:09:18 -0600, you wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:30:29PM -0600, Steve Browne wrote:

>> I personally think that tape is an outdated solution. I equipped my
>> tower case with "mobile" drive docks, so I can pop HDDs in and out at
>> will. I back up Mandrake with a Win98 "rescue" floppy (MSDOS 7.0) then
>> switching to a Ghost floppy. The neat thing about Ghost is that it
>> backs up all sorts of filesystems - even Martian for all I know. So I
>> mirror the entire hard drive to a backup hard drive of the same model
>> and size.
>
>Your description of ghost makes me a bit nervous. I conjecture from it
>that ghost backs up partitions as disk images, not file by file. This has
>two problems.
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It backs up file by file.

Steve
Stephen B. Browne
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