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Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:41:42 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.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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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.

> 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.

I used to have pretty decent success with Drive Image. The older versions I had
stopped working for Win-32 _after_ NT-4 (corrupted, unusable Restores), most
likely because of successive MS changes to the NTFS partitioning spec, and
probably some changes in techniques used by their SAM (the security and
installed-OS registration / identifier) module. I have not tried more recent
versions of DI, to see if those issues ever got resolved.

> 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 :-)

Just did so recently, a few times. Working inside the small Shuttle box is a bit
of a pain, because the space is so tight inside, and the cable runs are 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.

Jordan

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