wrote:
> After years of failures of proprietary, compressed
> backup-restore
> systems, the only thing I trust is an actual copy.
> The time it takes
> to make the copy or restore from it is of almost no
> importance. The
> process consists of poke a couple buttons and go to
> lunch - or to bed.
>
> And, by having the backup a complete copy of the
> entire HDD, I can
> plug it into a desktop to verify that it will boot.
> If the system to
> be restored is a DT then restore consists of
> plugging in the backup
> drive and fixing the faulty one at your leisure.
>
> If you have a better way of getting a copy in and
> out of a system that
> you don't want to open I'll be glad to hear it.
By complete copy, do you mean no compressed images ?
I don't know if this qualifies, but after my failed
migration attempt, I put back the last eCS 1.1 boot
partition from a DFSEE .IMZ file in a matter of
minutes. It looks to be a full and functional
"turning back the clock." I don't think I could ask
for any better than that.
Jordan
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