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Date:	Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:22:07 PST7
From:	"Info2SYNass.NET" <Info@SYNass.NET >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups

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Hello
I am not so happy with the solution "Drive Image Backup"

Drive Image creates a proprietary file and can restore the
the whole partition only ;-(

Myself would prefer a big ZIP file of my system partition.
With my system partition backup as ZIP I am able to unzip either
the whole file / system or needed file(s) only ;-)

This system ZIP file stored on MO or a CD media can be restored
OS independent !

I will do this when my system will be completely reinstalled with
MCP 4.52 !

Regards, svobi

sshapiro@ucsd.edu on 27.07.2002 04.09.05
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups

>As I said, my hope is to use Drive Image to save my systems
partition to
>another physical hard drive. Last time I looked into a CD
burner, I seem
>to recall that it cost $250 for the needed software to support
OS/2, in
>addition to the cost of the Burner, and only certain Burners are
>supported. Unless perhaps a burner is supported by the standalone
>diskette version of Drive image, which is a possibility I guess,
if one
>was willing to limit use of the Burner to this alone. Hard
drives are
>pretty cheap these days (you can buy a whole lot of gigs for
$250!), and
>I don't need to keep multiple generations of my system drive.

>Am I correct about the extra $250 cost of needed OS/2 software
for a CD
>Burner?

>Any comments on the viability of using PowerQuest's Drive Image
to save
>my OS/2 system partition to another hard drive?

Drive Image boots from a floppy and will recognize, and burn to,
your CD
burner. No OS/2 software is required.

Beware, Drive Image V. 5.0 is the last version to support HPFS
partitions.
The new Drive Image 2002 does not support HPFS (although there is
a way to
use it by disabling one of the features, I forget which at the
moment).

Also, with Drive Image, you can only restore a complete partition
-- not
individual files like with backup software and tape.

Sandy

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