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Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:43:25 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS Clone\Backup, Was Looking forward to the new & improved installer)

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jbrush@aros.net wrote:

>
> I tried DFSEE for cloning some time ago. It failed to successfully create an
> exact clone of the C paritition which could be put back onto the drive. It got
> the files, but the structure of the partition was wrong. Jan worked on it, we
> tried a few things, and eventually he said he had the fix for it, but the only
> way to know for sure if it now works is to blow away my C partition, which
> ain't gonna happen. If I ever need it, I have the clone to restore, but I am
> not gonna trash a working system to prove a point.

This is where having a full clone of the entire HDD is handy. It
gives you a safe way to play with new things.
>
> So many years ago, I had several packages that professed to be able to use
> tapes or CDs to clone and backup, but I never trusted them, and found that
> copying and zipping, along with robosave as I mentioned, is superior in almost
> every way.

I have had mixed recovery success with Zipped OS/2 boot partitions.
Sometimes unzipping over the existing boot partition would work,
sometimes after formating, and sometimes never. PM copy has always
worked on OS/2 on extended, and DOS and Win9X on C:.

Also as I have replaced the last three machines, I have not done an
install; I just clone the old one and then tweak the drivers.
Actually, I have had machines that refused to install OS/2. So clone
was necessary.
>
> So, if you use DFSEE on a primary partition, and it succeeds in restoring a
> cloned drive, please be sure and report that news. As with most backup
> software, it is not convenient to test it, and so the only way to find out if
> it worked, is under the stress of having it fail :-)
>
> Let us know how it goes.

When I get a few minutes I will try just for fun.

Ray

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