OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Mon Nov 19 11:45:24 2001

Richard Erlacher wrote:
> There's something about the OS that interferes with a backup. The Microsoft
> Backup for Win98 seems to work ...sorta... but it only works ...sorta... and
> falls down many times, misinterpreting a drive that the OS recognizes correctly
> to be a 2GB partition to be 300+ Terabytes. Naturally it falls down later
> because of that problem. <sigh>

I suspect this was you were never meant to backup the complete system.
Why that might mean somebody could make a illegal copy of windows.
The few backup programs I have looked at but never could afford still
run under DOS and will back up your windows system with out the OS.
There is just too much crap in windows that makes it nearly impossible
to backup. And of course you have to load windows to run a windows
backup.
(Stupid)!
 
> An OS without a real backup utility is of little use because you have to have
> backup ... not just copies of things, but a real backup, context and all, that
> enables you to get back to where you were. DOS didn't have that, UNIX doesn't
> have it (though it does have TAR, which makes copies to tape), OS/2 doesn't have
> it, LINUX doesn't have it ... I don't know what a guy's to do. I guess
> image-copying the disk to tape, empty space and all, is the only solution. Of
> course that means the files are replaceable only on an all or nothing basis.
> ^%$#_at_! ... what a bunch of crap!

Since I have a small HD I do a tar from my boot disk for linux, for the
entire
HD to a bunch of Zip disks. A bit messy but I know I recover the entire
OS
should my HD fail with tar.
Ben Franchuk.
Received on Mon Nov 19 2001 - 11:45:24 GMT

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