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Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:26:11 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups

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Sandy,

I also used Back Again 2000, version 2.1d, until about a year ago (I
believe that was the latest download update from CDS before their
release of version 3.00 A). I now use version 3.00 A.

I never back up to tapes - too slow for me. I use the hard drive
partitions. I do exactly what you suggested: a.) use compression on the
backups and 2.) back up each partition to a separate *.DAT file.

On my system I have 2 physical hard drive units. The first one is
partitioned as follows (approximately):

C:\ 8,193 MB
E:\ 19,767 MMB
F:\ 13,000 MB

The second hard drive is D:\ and is approx. 35.7 GB in size. My OS/2
system is on C:\ and I use only ~1,800 MB. I save my document files on
D:\ and use ~ 2,500 MB there. That leaves me free to put my backups on
E:\. I save several backup generations on E:\, and for safety reasons, I
also keep a copy of my latest backup on D:\.

I backup C:\ and D:\ and place them in their own separate *.DAT backup
file. It takes me ~30 minutes to backup C:\ and about 15 minutes to
backup D:\ Backing up the OS/2 system files in C:\OS2 makes the C:\
backup take a little longer.

HCM
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Sandy Shapiro wrote:
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> >Sandy,
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> >I use Back Again 2000. I swear by it. It's easy, fast, highly
> >configurable and it can be scheduled just as you like it. In short, it's
> >highly automated.
>
> That is very helpful. I am using BA 2K version 2.10d. It works well with
> tapes, and I am now used to it.
>
> The question is how to back up to a hard drive and deal with the 2.0
> megabyte file limit. I see that I can do it by giving each partition a
> separate backup name, instead of appending all to one file, like with
> tapes.
>
> I suppose I could run this from a command line, and combine the commands
> into a batch file to run them automatically.
>
> Do you back up to hard drives?
> Which version of BA 2K do you use?
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy
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