D'oh! Backup issue solved

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sun Sep 3 12:02:25 2000

>My solution has been to abandon backups, and to create archives instead.
>When possible, I try to extract from the running system any
configuration
>info I'd need to get back to where I was, and include that in the
archive
>as well.


Actually from expereince that is a good approach.

Expereince has been that when I needed a back up or archive I also had
changed OSs due to major system failure. For example the latest was
due to a real disk crash. So I finally jumped off W3.1 to WinNT4 so
archives were actually more useful.

I started doing that lots of years ago as every new varient of CP/M
system
usually had more storage so it was rare that I wanted to reproduce the
former configuration. Also archives allowed me to leave off stuff that
was
of little or no further interest.

Allison
Received on Sun Sep 03 2000 - 12:02:25 BST