Chad Fernandez wrote: > > What about some sort of Raid configuration? The question is, what sort? Backing up all executables seems like gross overkill. The only stuff I worry about loosing is my own work which cant be downloaded.
I'd likta find a little tool that would copy /home/day, but also get my Netscape and xwin panel settings. With dos, just copy autoexec, config sys, and c:/drdos where all the called device drivers are stored, and you have a duplicate desktop on another drive. I'd likta do the same with the various Linux distros so I'd know that I was comparing the distro, and not muddy it up with so many other choices. With Linux, maybe because of the more powerful os, when it crashes it has been impossible to remount the drive with another distro to recover my own work on it. Most of the time when a dos drive crashes, sys.com puts back the os and you are back in business. Even when it is worse than that, and the directory tree is full of high-ascii crap, I can still find my own mail and text files to copy them onto another drive. For all I know, there may be ways to remount a crashed Linux drive, and/or run xfsconfig or whatever to get what you want off it, but obviously as well, with the much more powerful os, there is much more complexity, and a Newbie, who is most likely to crash the drive in the first place, will be absolutely clueless. So, the rational thing to do is come up with a utility that will look at whatever drive you have, and get the stuff you care about onto another. One thing about the idea of having different drives of different oses is that whatever a windoz drive does, it aint likely to screw up a Linux drive it cant even see. Back in the BBS days, many of the Termcomms and offline mail readers included tools to find your host list, your personal email addies, and pending mail, which were then all automatically pasted into the new app. Does Opera do that with Netscape? And is that why Netscape tries to make this stuff hard to find? To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
