Hello j, Monday, March 31, 2008, 4:15:25 AM, you wrote:
> Only because it is interpretive in nature vs. simply > copying the partition as a > container. You could miss something with the wrong > switch or run into an OS > limitation while copying which I've seen when copying > many small files under windows, > there's no easy way to verify the backup is complete. > Point is that imaging software is out there and in > some cases free, can restore > individual files if need be, why not use it? > Glad to hear the xcopy comandline I sent worked, now > question is how do you verify > it's an exact copy of everything on the source drive? Food for thought, have never had an issue in almost 10 years but I suppose it could happen. If it did, I suppose we could just pull the drive out again and get the file we missed or forgot. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
