On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:01:57 GMT, Judson McClendon wrote:
> "Auric__" <not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> Damn. That's a lot of backups.
>
> Yes, but it only takes a few minutes to back up a partition to an
> image on a hard drive, and I only have to do this every couple of
> years. Also, since it takes 3 or 4 days to get everything set up
> correctly, all those backups come in handy if I make a mistake or
> have a problem during installation. I can just reload the previous
> backup and resume. I like my original installations to be
> completely pristine, without any corrected errors or bobbles,
> because they're the foundation I'll be running on for some time.
> :-)
Come on, Real Men reinstall Windows every month or two! :) (God knows
I do.)
Besides, my partitions start at "pretty big" and go up from there.
The only one I have that could be imaged to anything other than
another hard drive is my Linux /boot partition, 'cause it's the only
one with less than a dozen or so gigs of crap. (100MB partition. 3
kernels. Lots of free space.)
The only stuff I actually back up are \Desktop, \MyDocs, and, every
three months or so, \WinTools, so I don't have to reinstall
everything (and the Linux equivalents to the above, also).
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