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Date:	Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:26:31 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Archive boot, was Checkini hang

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In <200401250528.i0P5SZxb079829@deimos.aros.net>, on 01/24/04
at 09:28 PM, jbrush@aros.net said:

>Robosave is the only way to fly. It is so customizable, that you can
>easily switch back and forth between destop/system setups. You can
>archive the system and save it anywhere you want, only to return to it
>years later, if you so desire.

RoboSave works pretty well. It's comparable to what Unimaint does. Both
have the benefit of being very reliable when it come time to do a restore.

>The startup archive has always seem to bring heartache and
>dissapointment to those who depend on it (I know, but its sounds poetic
>)

It's not that the builtin archive is all that unreliable in itself. It's
more that same folks that depend on it don't do regular desktop cleanup
and don't have alternate forms of backup. When they need to recover, they
often find that none of the 3 stored archives have valid content. They
just assumed it would work when they needed it.

I've always claimed that having working backups is one of the better ways
to ensure you will not need them. There's something about thinking
through the issues of ensuring that a backup will actuall restore that
convinces one that regular system maintenance is a cheap form of
minimizing the need to use the backup.

Steven

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