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Pegasus \(MVP\)
Ken Blake said:Without going into great detail, the great majority of it is in two
folders: \Windows and \Users
Ken
Ken Blake said:Without going into great detail, the great majority of it is in two
folders: \Windows and \Users
Ken
Ken Blake said:Without going into great detail, the great majority of it is in two
folders: \Windows and \Users
Ken
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.
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.
In my view, it makes no sense to restrict oneself to a small system
partition when you have a drive anywhere near as big as 1TB.
Well, I don't look at it as restricting myself, I look at it as
making it much faster to do backups and restores. I do have 25 GB
reserved for the C drive in case I ever need it, with currently
10GB allocated to C, and 15 unused. The Acronis software makes it
a snap to reallocate the used/unused if I run out of room, but in
the last five years I haven't needed more than 10GB.
??? 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.
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.
And seeing that we're in a WinXP newsgroup,
I was not talking about Vista, as you are.
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.
Just curious. Is your definition of an XP system partition any different
that MS's? Same question for an XP boot partition?
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.
Well, with all respect, I think you are all making the same error of
assuming that I am using the same backup software as you.
In my view, it makes no sense to restrict oneself to a small system
partition when you have a drive anywhere near as big as 1TB.
Well, I don't look at it as restricting myself, I look at it as
making it much faster to do backups and restores. I do have 25 GB
reserved for the C drive in case I ever need it, with currently
10GB allocated to C, and 15 unused. The Acronis software makes it
a snap to reallocate the used/unused if I run out of room, but in
the last five years I haven't needed more than 10GB.
??? 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.
Well, with all respect, I think you are all making the same error of
assuming that I am using the same backup software as you. I am
using Seagate Disk Wizard, which came with my drive. It is made by
Acronis, but does not have as many features as the full Acronis
backup product. In particular, when imaging a partition, the only
choice is a sector by sector backup of the partition, regardless of
how much data it contains.
I prefer it over XP's built-in backup because it can run from a CD
even when XP won't boot.
With all respect - you should really read up on how the product you are
utilizing works (and/or upgrade the version you are using from here:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard.)
The manual clearly states it does exactly as 'all' of us have suggested to
you. ;-)
http://www.seagate.com/support/discwizard/dw_ug.en.pdf
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Chapter 3. General information
3.1 Disc/partition images
A backup archive (also called in this guide "image backups") is a file or a
group of files that
contains a copy of all information stored on selected discs/partitions.
Backing up discs and partitions is performed in a special way: Seagate
DiscWizard stores a
sector-by-sector snapshot of the disc, which includes the operating system,
registry, drivers,
software applications and data files, as well as system areas hidden from
the user. This
procedure is called "creating a disc image," and the resulting backup
archive is often called a
disc/partition image.
Seagate DiscWizard stores only the portions of your hard disc that contain
data (for
supported file systems). Further, it does not back up swap file information
(pagefile.sys
under Windows NT/2000/XP) and hiberfil.sys (a file that keeps RAM contents
when the
computer goes into hibernation). This reduces image size and speeds up image
creation and
restoration of the data.
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