From: Will Lau (contact_at_snappersolutions.com)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2000 - 22:54:48 EDT
Thanks,
I really dont want to muck around with partitions and booting up with DOS. I
would really like to backup in the background while I use the machine.
How well would this work...
I just use the standard W2000 backup utility to dump a bkf file on my 2nd
HDD. Then to restore onto a fresh drive I install W2000 on a clean HDD and
click restore.
Would I be back where I started from, or would I be missing lots of things
like my updated drivers, registry entires, etc.
-Will
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dnb_at_ccs.neu.edu [mailto:dnb_at_ccs.neu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, 3 July 2000 10:36 AM
> To: Will Lau
> Cc: ThinkPad List
> Subject: Re: Ghosting twin HDD on 600x
>
>
> > Is there anyway I can mirror my drives?
>
> Howdy-
> While I personally think Michael's suggestion is better than the one
> I'm about to make (I do something similar, except I put my DOS
> partition _after_ my NTFS and ext2 partitions to keep the drive
> letters a little more straightforward), I can suggest another route:
>
> W2k offers software RAID. You may be able to create at least a data
> partition that is mirrored to the other drive. This doesn't provide
> a 100% backup (and it is more resource intensive, see the warning in
> the help files about placing your page file there), but it does
> directly answer your question.
>
> Peace,
> dNb
>
> P.S. No warranty stated or implied--I've never attempted to use W2k's
> RAID functionality myself.
>
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