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Date:	Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:30:43 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups to HDD

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Info2SYNass.NET wrote:
>
> are you "xcopy"ing from your active partition to another HDD ???

Yes, using XCOPY /H/O/T/S/E/R/V

> that's not a good way because the active system does use
> many files so they cannot been copied ;-(

There are only five that won't copy and three aren't critical (like
SWAPPER.DAT).

> My suggestion is booting from floppies
> or from a logical maintenance partition

I'm 24x7. Don't want to shut down for 7 hours every day for the backup.

- Peter

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