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Date:	Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:51:50 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Looking forward to the new & improved installer)

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> >I did not want to bother re-cloning the whole drive. To do that
> >properly, one is likely well advised to first WIPE the clone drive. (*)
> >That is to say, a time-consuming Two Pass process.
> snip

Larry Tawa wrote:

> Suggestions:
>
> (3) Given the backup scheme as *you* have
> described; what is difficult about wiping then cloning the drive?; use the
> backup monitor, wipe in the AM and then clone at night when home from
> work.
> (5) Frankly, I would take the bother/time to just do it.

Well, this 80G. drive has 18 partitions, 5 of them bootable. To me, something
just goes against the grain where it comes to trashing those partitions that
are still just fine _as they are_, don't change all that much over time, are
working well, and don't need to be updated. I don't mind doing this for a
certain few partitions. The spare drive probably does not need this
"re-synching" more than a couple times a year, in order to remain a viable
understudy . . . particularly since I am recording partition images to DVD and
an outboard H/D periodically. If necessary, should the spare have to go into
regular service, those should provide for getting back up-to-date.

Jordan

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