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Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:38:22 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Archiving a volume...?

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Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
> Ray,
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> Can I copy to another HDD that is in use on my system, or must I remove
> it (unplug it) after the copy?

If this just a temporary thing so you will have a backup available if
you blow something up, leave it. However, since you had to ask this
question, I am going to assume you do not have a guaranteed backup
plan, because I contend this is the only one you can truly trust.
Therefore the real answer is; you pull the HDD, with it's plugin rack,
out of the machine and put it in a safe storage place.

> If I have eCS on D:, what does it get
> copied to? another D:?

It is going to get copied to whatever empty space you point it at. If
you wish to clone the entire HDD then you have to construct the backup
HDD to match the primary - in structure not necessarily size. This is
the best backup system. Then, if the system has a problem, in the
time it takes to pull one tray and plugin the backup, you are
restored. Then you can fix the broken HDD at your leisure.

The drive letter it gets copied to depends on your file system and
manager. If you hope to boot that partition then you have to plan it
that way or the the paths won't be correct.

Ray

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