Re: ANY reason not to turn off System Restore for non-boot drives?

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On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:18:46 -0800 (PST), a2mgoog@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Dec 30, 4:43 pm, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kbl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

??? Why do you think a backup or restore will be faster if the system
partition is smaller? Are you imaging the entire drive or just backing
up data?

I am imaging the system partition. I must be missing your point,
because it seems obvious to me that a smaller partition would take
less time to back up.


Sorry, but that's not correct. It's the amount of data that determines
the backup time, not the size of the partition. See also the responses
from Pegasus, Shenan Stanley, and Zilbandy.

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