At 11:09 3/31/2008, Joe User wrote: >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.
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