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Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:44:31 PDT7
From:	jbrush@aros.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: OS Clone\Backup, Was Looking forward to the new & improved installer)

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In <414F3238.5089D54@pacbell.net>, on 09/20/04 at 11:41 AM,
"J. R. Fox" said:

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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.

>How long ago, John ? Version 4 or 5 ? If so, not too relevant.

According to the menu I just checked, v6.5.

>> 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.

>Zipping or XCopying will miss certain things. This topic has come up at
>meetings.

You say that way too confidentally, when in fact, I have done it dozens of
times, and never missed anything. Quite a few people use xcopy that way and
have no issues with it in other forums.

What does everyone say comes up missing? The system I am using now was first
installed in 1997, and backed up with robosave and zips a lot of times. Also
restored to new drives on several occasions. More than a few times I have
bungled something and gone ahead and blown away the boot partition, and
restored from the zipped stuff, and six years later, I am not seeing anything
missing. Must be something I don't use?

Don't put a hex on me now :-) If anyone asks me, it works just great.

>very short. But I did connect the spare drive after partition cloning,
>booted the affected partitions (as well as the other bootable ones), ran
>several app.s. Everything I tried seemed to work normally, and the spare
>drive was now as up to date as the regular drive, in terms of service packs,
>installed app.s, etc.

That is good news. Jan told me he had fixed it up after I had brought it up to
him, but like I said, without another drive to try it on, I had no way to
really verify it.

I guess with prices dropping so much, everyone ought to have a spare, empty
drive to test clones and other backups on.

Thanks for the info.

John

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