Re: [Thinkpad] T41p: reinstalling Windows, what HD to use?

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 09:24 -0700, Michael Geary wrote:

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> Oh - that's a good point! Yes, you're right, bad sectors or file damage in
> one partition will never affect any of the other partitions. Of course, if
> the partition table at the beginning of the disk is damaged, then you're in
> trouble, but there's no avoiding that, whether you use one partition or
> multiple ones.
>
> With incremental backups, it sounds like it works out nicely - you can make
> an incremental backup to any of your partitions at any time, then when one
> of them fills up, erase it over and start with a fresh full backup on that
> partition.
>
> -Mike

Hi Mike,
A good point and a bad point of view !?

Yes, partitioning has its benefits and misfits.
For security & technical reasons, like you mentioned above, I too tend
to a more intensive partitioning. ;-)
Another aspect: If a notebook has a 80GB HDD its backup partition does
not need to be bigger than these 80GB !! ;-))
Full means full !!! ;-D

Another much more important aspect is data, very especially backup data,
security:

I would more tend to a multi-generation-backup-system ! ;-)
At least 2 generations to make sure one has to more try to get stored
data restored
(at least quite) reasonable !?

For very very import data I would suggest 2 external HDD's
one for EVEN and the other for ODD sequences of backups !!!

With tape backups I used to have weekly full backups with daily
incrementals.

This has worked well until I started backup dirtectly to an external
HDD:
One day the backup HDD to HDD got an endless loop ...
... and both HDD's became unreadable. ;-/

Even CBL were not able to get them readable anymore ! ;-p

Good luck & cheers, svobi

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Received on Sun Apr 27 19:24:28 2008