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From: Caesar Romano on 18 Jul 2010 06:25 On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:24:52 -0500, "jim.s.witherspoon" <jim.s.witherspoon(a)gmail.com> wrote Re partitioning and backup strategy etc.: >Hi all, > >I've got a single partition on my primary hard drive, and I'm looking to >improve on my partitioning and backup strategy. Been googling, but I'd >like to know what savvy ACFers do. > >What partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? What do you have >on each partition? How big is the partition that has your Windows >directory? What partitioning tool(s) do you use? What's your strategy for >backing up your partitions? What tool(s) do you use? > >I'll appreciate any replies. drive0: C: WinXO = 60GB total, 4GB used D: Programs & Data = 260 GB total, 2GB used drive1: E: image backups of C: and D: + non-critical data = 320GB total, 42 GB used DriveImageXML image backups http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm done every 10 days; keeping the last 4 image backups on-line. Older images spun off to DVDs -- Work is the curse of the drinking class.
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 07:15 From: <hmmm> | "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in | news:i1tsaq01imt(a)news1.newsguy.com: >> Don't partition. It adds nothing. If you want the OS and data on >> different drives, get another hard disk instead. | I have to offer a dissenting opinion on this one. Once hard drives started | reaching hundreds of gigabytes, it became imperative to partition. With | drives now reaching 1 tb or more, you have to. | Say you have a 1 tb drive with 500 gig of files and folders. How long do you | think it would take to defrag the whole thing, or perform an anti-malware or | antivirus scan? How about if you're using file search utilities? | If you set up a multiple partition drive (more than 4), you can defrag or do | security scans for one partition at a time. The same holds for disk wipes, | erasers, system and partition backups, etc. | In addition, partitions make multiple OS boots alot easier. Actually a SCSI controller with multiple SCSI drives make multiple OS boots alot easier. When you boot, go into the SCSI BIOS and chose the LUN of the drive representing the OS to boot from. As for partitioning, no need under NTFS unlike FAT32 and its predecessors. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 07:23 From: "John Corliss" <q34wsk20(a)yahoo.com> | David H. Lipman wrote: >> jim.s.witherspoon wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I've got a single partition on my primary hard drive, and I'm looking to >>> improve on my partitioning and backup strategy. Been googling, but I'd >>> like to know what savvy ACFers do. >>> What partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? What do you have >>> on each partition? How big is the partition that has your Windows >>> directory? What partitioning tool(s) do you use? What's your strategy for >>> backing up your partitions? What tool(s) do you use? >>> I'll appreciate any replies. >> Don't partition. It adds nothing. If you want the OS and data on different drives, >> get >> another hard disk instead. | I disagree. Partitioning helps you greatly if you ever defrag your hard | drive or run AV software on it. It's much faster to defrag a smaller | partition than it is to defrag a whole hard drive. | My partitioning needs are simple though. I just divide my main hard | drive into two equal-sized partitions. I put my sizable collection of | downloads on one partition, my OS and programs on the other. There are | undoubtedly better ways of doing things, but this tactic serves my needs. | I also have a backup internal hard drive which I've partitioned into two | equal halves. I also back up onto various external media. If you partition a disk into two volumes you still need to defrag Volume 1 and Volume 2 which together would take the same time as defragging the whole hard disk. If you partition a disk into multiple volumes then any bad sectors or problems with the hard disk still affects all volumes of the hard disk. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 07:25 From: "Robb Scott" <none.no-one(a)invalid> | On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:24:52 -0500, "jim.s.witherspoon" | <jim.s.witherspoon(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>I've got a single partition on my primary hard drive, and I'm looking to >>improve on my partitioning and backup strategy. Been googling, but I'd >>like to know what savvy ACFers do. | G'day Jim, | I don't know if I'm savvy or not. :-) >>What partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? C:: D: E: >>What do you have on each partition? >>How big is the partition that has your Windows directory? C:: Windows 7 = 40GB D:: Programs = 40GB E:: Music = 620GB >>What partitioning tool(s) do you use? >>What's your strategy for backing up your partitions? >>What tool(s) do you use? | Backups must be on external drives to be always available. It is also | suggested that the external drive be kept at a different address, which | I don't personally go along with. | Previously I used Partition Magic which is no longer available, now | Windows 7 allows me to partition. | I backup D: E: (copy & paste) to an external drive at least weekly. | I have two external drives solely for backups and I alternate between | the two drives. | I also do smaller daily backups to a USB stick when I have made changes | to MS Money or made smaller changes to some programs. | Again I alternate between two USB sticks. | I install the operating system to C: which is currently 40GB and much | larger than necessary, probably due to in the past having run dual boots | between Linux & Windows which I now don't run. | I don't backup C: | When I install my programs I install as many as possible to D: which is | backed up regularly. | Also on D: | D:\Archives, where I store text files and passwords. | D:\Attic, where I store installation programs I have downloaded. | E:\Music where I have Enrico Caruso 1904 -1921, Richard Tauber (1929) | Jussi Bj�rling, Jos� Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Mario | Lanza and heaps of others which I backup very carefully. | I think I'll go on and have a listen now. <gd&r> | -- | /\ Regards, | \/ Robb. 40GB for the OS, not much breathing room for when you install software and for the User Profiles, etc. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 07:36
From: "John Corliss" <q34wsk20(a)yahoo.com> I forgot to add... You can't write to Volume 1 and Volume 2 of a partitioned disk at the same time while you can with two physical hard disks. { assuming they aren't IDE in a master-slave relationship, they need to be on their own IDE channel } -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |