19 Nov
2001
19 Nov
'01
3:45 a.m.
Richard Erlacher wrote:
There's something about the OS that interferes
with a backup. The Microsoft
Backup for Win98 seems to work ...sorta... but it only works ...sorta... and
falls down many times, misinterpreting a drive that the OS recognizes correctly
to be a 2GB partition to be 300+ Terabytes. Naturally it falls down later
because of that problem. <sigh>
I suspect this was you were never meant to backup the complete system.
Why that might mean somebody could make a illegal copy of windows.
The few backup programs I have looked at but never could afford still
run under DOS and will back up your windows system with out the OS.
There is just too much crap in windows that makes it nearly impossible
to backup. And of course you have to load windows to run a windows
backup.
(Stupid)!
An OS without a real backup utility is of little use
because you have to have
backup ... not just copies of things, but a real backup, context and all, that
enables you to get back to where you were. DOS didn't have that, UNIX doesn't
have it (though it does have TAR, which makes copies to tape), OS/2 doesn't have
it, LINUX doesn't have it ... I don't know what a guy's to do. I guess
image-copying the disk to tape, empty space and all, is the only solution. Of
course that means the files are replaceable only on an all or nothing basis.
^%$#@! ... what a bunch of crap!
Since I have a small HD I do a tar from my boot disk for linux, for the
entire
HD to a bunch of Zip disks. A bit messy but I know I recover the entire
OS
should my HD fail with tar.
Ben Franchuk.