Re: Cannot copy files in use?

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On 11 Jul, 18:46, "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote:
And it will STILL be useless as a full system backup.

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Gary S. Terhune
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Looking at his first few posts - i'm not going to read all of them
because it is just you provoking him and him spewing back.

It is clear from that, he just -said- he wanted to copy files in use.

If he meant something else, then that's his problem. I'll first answer
the question he asked.

He didn't say that he wanted copy his OS -for free, but I mentioned
the cloning solutions anyway, since later he complained that people
mentioned -payware- cloning solutions.

Your term "full system backup" is a bit nonsensical.. Even cloning
only works partition by partition. So with that one backs up whichever
partition he wants to backup, and if that is all of them, then so be
it. And if that is on all hard drives, then so be it.
It may be that some offer a backup of a whole hard drive, all
partitions..byte by byte beginning to end. Be interesting to know if
that is the case. Could be, but I doubt it. And I doubt you thought
about that when you said "full system backup". I suppose there is a
"system backup", which you wouldn't really distinguish from a "full
system backup". The distinction is really between imaging/cloning of
a partition, and of file backups.

I notice that in your big argument with Mr Smith, you didn't at any
point state specifically why a file backup wouldn't work. You could
have done that rather than gloat. Of course, file backup is not
recommended practice for backing up an OS.


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