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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:59:32 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Ghost vs. DI vs. Zip

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Ray Davison wrote:

> How are any of these proprietary backup and restore systems superior to
> ZIP and UNZIP. I have successfully restored and moved partitions,
> including the OS/2 boot partition. Also, if I want a file from a
> backup, with a decent file manager I can instantly jump to that file and
> pluck it out.

Some of this has already been replied to, but: 1) An image file usually has
substantial compression, 2) It is created much faster and restored much
faster, with a built-in scheme for redundancy and error-checking, 3) it
includes the underlying partitioning and formatting for that drive partition,
not just the files contained therein, so the partition should be ready to roll
right after a Restore. Zip does not do this, and can have some serious
limitations, as pointed out in recent threads here. The one advantage it does
have is individual file access. Ghost & DI can do this -- to some degree --
but only under certain versions of Windows. I would NEVER even consider
running any *critical* system-altering program that does low-level stuff,
under Win. That would be like building a big hotel on top of quicksand.

Jordan

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