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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:08:01 -0800
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: AMD x2 questions

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J R FOX wrote:
>
> Since mine was a much older laptop model, I had no
> need for Panorama. But I expect I will, if and when I
> put a latter day video card into the reconfigured
> tower system, or the 2nd. Shuttle.

Panorama seems to be limited to ATI.
>
> I think (hope) they have been making steady
> improvements to the installer, but have no way of
> knowing for sure.

I have seen no progress.
>
> The difference is this: your image can be Smart
> Compressed; I would expect your Copy to be Raw. My
> 10G. W2K boot partition (about 50 % free space,
> presently) became an image of about 2.4G. Even on a
> decent sized storage drive, 10G is not chump change.
> (I don't use any 500G + drives, and have no plans to.)

The backup drive size is the same size as the working drive. In the
case of my desktops the backup drive becomes the working drive. Drives
are cheap, unless of course you think IDE is not good enough.

> Besides that, you run into a single file limit of
> around 4G -- either on FAT-32 or NTFS, I don't recall
> which at the moment. I'd rather not have to split and
> re-integrate backups.

What do drive copies have to do with file size. You don't create or
even copy files; just bits.

Ray

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