Re: Two "expert" issues I must solve before upgading
From: Jeff W (msnews_at_Kwcpa.com)
Date: 09/08/04
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:39:51 -0400
Thanks VanguardX
1) interested only in disk-to-disk over a network - and I believe
NTbackup support this.
2) Haven't stumbled over EFS yet so probably don't care - what sort of
APP (or O/S usage?) would it show up in?
3) When I said "If a few apps have to be re-installed after the restore
because they are tied to physical disk locations (games often do this),
I'm OK with that." I didn't mean drive letter. Some games record the
physical location on the disk they're installed to to prevent copying
without the CD. (I.e., copying the hard-drive contents to another hard
drive doesn't work). Great explanation of drive-letter manipulation
btw, but I couldn't see the connection to my question - what am I missing?
4a) you say "There's not much point in backing up applications since you
can simply reinstall them again (and apply updates thereafter to get to
the same version as before)." Using my method on WIN98, I had a dead
drive replaced in a matter of hours, less than an hour of my time. That
would take a lot lot longer if I had to reinstall all the apps. So I
don't agree with your statement, FWIW. Why not save EVERYTHING, and
restore EVERYTHING - much faster. (especially as my PCs only have like
3-5GB on them total usage).
4b) I'm happy to make my weekly full backups "disk images". Can you
recommend a cheap program which will do so unattended and compress the
result? However, no offense, but unless I'm missing something, it
still sounds like the 'disk image' approach is more religious than by
proof that logical backups aren't sufficient. (am i missing a point here?)
4c) Don't you get in trouble if your weekly full backups are physical
and your daily incrementals are logical? If you restore the last full,
and then the incrementals over it, but the incrementals are incomplete
(as they must be, otherwise you wouldn't recommend disk image for the
fulls), don't you run the risk of a corrupted system (like, if you
installed apps since the last full so the registry got modified but the
last registry is on the disk image?) Doesn't it make more sense to
either make every backup physical (painful), or make everything
accessible to the logical backup? (painful?)
4d) as far as disks going bad, I bet that two disks (the original, and
the one where the backup is stored) won't go bad at the same time. I
also backup to tape once a month.
5) you're saying a clean install is a preventative measure? With all
the work that MS apparently put into making for clean transitions, it
seems odd to hear they just don't work.. No argument that if I get
imaging software I should run it before the upgrade 8-}
5b) no ASR wizard - upgrading to XP HOME. What does it take to restore
a disk image other than the backup software?
Thanks again - good thoughts
/j
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