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Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:28:53 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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I am jumping into this thread late, so I hope I am not OT.

My standard OS backup method, for at least a couple years, has been to
copy the partition to a partition on another HDD. My OS/2 partitions
are always extended. I just create extended space on the target HDD,
usually by deleting the previous backup, and copy the partition I want
to backup. There is no reason to be concerned with the rest of the
drive. You are mearly parking a partition that you can copy back to
your boot partition. I always do this while booted from a DOS floppy,
so the HDDs are inert and drive letters are irrelevant.

If you copy the entire HDD, then restore can be as simple as unplug
the boot HDD and replace with the backup HDD. That is why plugin
racks are so useful.

The only problem I have ever had with this is, one time I copied a
partition to space on the same HDD. The serial number was also
copied. That left two partitions with the same serial number; not a
good idea.

There are multiple tools for copying partitions. I still use PM 3.05.
I support DFSEE and keep looking at the clone function. I am told
it works, I have not tried it.

Ray

J. R. Fox wrote:
>
>>>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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