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Date:	Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:55:16 PST7
From:	Wayne Cypress <waynecypress@compuserve.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "INTERNET:scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups

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>>Wayne wrote:

>> Drive Image looks as though it could do the job for me by copying
>> the D: partition to another hard drive as a file (via boot-up Dr
>> DOS diskettes) and then "restored" later the same way if need be.
>> Anyone have comments on that? I don't have any removable media to
>> write to except for diskettes.

> Those .PQI partition image files get to be large enough that you
> need a CD-burner. Even a 250M. zip disk won't be enough. I don't
> know if the images can be spanned to diskette (DI 4.0 is supposed
> to offer spanning to multiple CD's, if necessary), but you would
> find the process to be excruciating.

> Jordan

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 supporte=
d.
Unless perhaps a burner is supported by the standalone diskette version o=
f
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 m=
y
OS/2 system partition to another hard drive?

One potential problem is that I use the old IBM Extended Edition database=

for a hobby application I wrote some years back, and there may be databas=
e
pointers kept on the systems partition that could render my database (kep=
t
on another partition) inoperable after a Drive Image restore.

Thanks,
Wayne

BTW, no hangs yesterday or today... too soon to know for sure if it's
cured. Any reason to believe the newer AIC7870.* files did the trick?

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