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Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:05:56 PDT7
From:	jbrush@aros.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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>My standard OS backup method, for at least a couple years, has been to copy
>the partition to a partition on another HDD. I
>always do this while booted from a DOS floppy, so the HDDs are inert and
>drive letters are irrelevant.

Given the cost of hard drives, and my own bad experience with CD burning,
this has always been my preferred method. However, I use a maintenance
partition as the drive to boot from in order to allow all the system files on
the source partition, or whatever, to be copied. Once I have the partition
copied successfully, I usually wil zip it up.

That, and robosave are my backup methods and they have not yet failed me in
nearly ten years.

>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.

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.

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.

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.

John

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