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[Asheville Joe]

Don't worry.   We're all on the learning curve!  There's even a thing or 
two even Bob Meyer doesn't know ;) !
As for windows, I've got mine hobbled - all startup tasks disabled - to 
keep it stable enough to watch TV on because I don't have a good backup 
of it and I can't take the 4 days to rebuild it!  But when I finally do, 
now I can save it.  I've been trying to get backup for windows to work 
for over seven years with no notable success until now.  It took Linux 
to do it right!

I'm attaching my current backup scripts.  The basic idea is that I have 
a huge second IDE drive (cheap from Office Max on sale) set up as a 
removable drive (you get a standard drive and a removable kit that lets 
you pop it in and out of an external 5 1/4" bay - also cheap).  So, I 
make backups of my primary drive to the secondary drive - faster and I 
don't have to be there to stick multiple CDRW's in.  Then, at my 
leisure, I can burn any of the backups to CDRW.  But that's more 
trouble, so it doesn't get done as often (which is not good for reliable 
backups).

The only real reservation I have with my scripts (other than the fact 
that no attempt was made to generalize them), is that I have not done a 
restore from the backups and that's the only real proof that they work.

Joe

Mark Robson wrote:

>Thanks, Joe.  I'm sure I want to see that script when
>it's available, but I am many learning curves away
>from understanding it.  In summary, my troubles come
>from an unwillingness to reinstall win in the past, so
>I upgraded and rescued and did a lot of what my
>farmer-grandfather called hay-wiring.  It has
>something to do with a broken down tractor and the
>ready availability of hay-baling wire to fix the
>problem.  Now I know why backups are so highly
>regarded.  And why windows s***s
>
>Thanks again to all who aided.  
>
>Mark
>
>  
>

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