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Date:	Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:21:14 PST8
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backing up the unmentionable...?

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--- Martin Rosenfeld wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if it is possible to back up a
> WIN2K
> partition (NTFS) from eCS and later to copy it back
> to its
> original (reformatted) partition so that it will
> boot? I would
> like to do this with 4OS/2's COPY or by creating a
> ZIP file.

Not advisable, IMO. There are subtle details that
won't get picked up this way, and this is apt to bring
the whole procedure to grief, should you ever really
*need* that backup.

> I would copy it to a JSF volume and then back to
NTFS.
> I suppose
> DFSee would do this too.

That's definitely the method of choice: a full
bit-level imaging of the W2K boot partition by DFSEE.
I recommend the partition's having passed the W2K
equivalent of Autocheck (the CHECKDISK that should
take place at bootup) before you make the image. A
partition defrag before imaging wouldn't hurt either.
I further recommend that you make a no-compression
image. (This is the product of hard experience. I've
lost two W2K partitions on each of two machines.
Lost, as in unrecoverable. But *none* that couldn't
be restored successfully, since I started doing it
this way.)

If the W2K boot partition is kept to about 4G., the
image will still fit on a DVD, for off-site backup.
If it's larger, you can still have it written to a
spare NTFS or FAT-32 storage partition of suitable
size. Copying to or from a DVD is kind of slow, so I
tend to save these images on an external HDD, even
though I also keep a couple of the more recent ones on
the system HDD.

I don't know about using your JFS partition in this
regard.

HTH

Jordan

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