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From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 10:41 From: "Duddits" <Duddits(a)Dreamcatcher.com> | On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:24:52 -0500, "jim.s.witherspoon" | <jim.s.witherspoon(a)gmail.com> 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. >>jim | Drive 1 - 750GB WD Caviar Black C:: 100GB - Windows encoding installable "Program Files" D:: 100GB - Portable "Program Files" E:: The Rest - music, downloads, databases, digital camera photos, | etc, etc F:: DVD/CD burner | Drive 2 - 8GB WD Caviar G:: 80GB - Swap File 4GB minimum 4GB maximum, backup files, Alt.binz & | it's temporary downloads | Drive 3 - 80GB Deskstar H:: 80GB - TrueCrypt encrypted partition | My rational: | 1. Windows on a small quick to defrag partition | 2, Windows on the fastest drive | 3. Swap file on a separate drive to help prevent thrashing between | swap files and OS and/or programs 4:: Only C and G's portable program folder need to be defraged on a | regular basis since the others are rarely used archive files or files | that are destined to be burned to DVD/CD I have set Puran Defrag to | automatically do a boot time defrag on C: once a week I manually | defrag G's portable programs folder a few times/month. If you Sawp File is on a volume of the same hard disk that was partiotioned - you cgain NO benefit. It needs to be a separate, physical, hard disk such that the read/writes can be multi-tasked bwtwen the OS drove and the swap drive. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Dave on 18 Jul 2010 10:45 On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:56:22 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > John Corliss <q34wsk20(a)yahoo.com> wrote in > news:_rKdnb0mL9w7Ut_RnZ2dnUVZ_uudnZ2d(a)posted.ccountrynet: > >> 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. >> >> > Make images. I use Redo Backup. I tried Redo Backup on three different machines.It was painfully slow on all three.It's supposed to be some perl scripts using the partclone utility,but Redo took 36 minutes for a backup of a 25 gb (XP partition 7.5 gb used).Same partition backup(source + destination)performed using Parted Magic LiveCd,using the partclone utility= 6 minutes.End result files,same size,same gzip format.The project just seems to need some more work before I'd trust it for a backup solution.The first questions in the FAQ/Help http://redobackup.org/help.php all concern "freezes" and failed backups.Might try it again later,Xpud that it's built on is a nice fast little distro,but for now the backups are just too slow and unreliable. Dave -- Registered Linux User #444770 Fedora 13 Goddard
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 10:45 From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> | If you Sawp File is on a volume of the same hard disk that was partiotioned - you cgain | NO | benefit. | It needs to be a separate, physical, hard disk such that the read/writes can be | multi-tasked bwtwen the OS drove and the swap drive. WoW that was bad :-) If your Swap File is on a volume of the same hard disk that was partitioned - you gain NO benefit. It needs to be on a separate, physical, hard disk such that the read/writes can be multi-tasked batween the OS drive and the swap drive. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Duddits on 18 Jul 2010 11:10 On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:41:22 -0400, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: >From: "Duddits" <Duddits(a)Dreamcatcher.com> > >| On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:24:52 -0500, "jim.s.witherspoon" >| <jim.s.witherspoon(a)gmail.com> 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. > >>>jim > >| Drive 1 - 750GB WD Caviar Black >C:: 100GB - Windows encoding installable "Program Files" >D:: 100GB - Portable "Program Files" >E:: The Rest - music, downloads, databases, digital camera photos, >| etc, etc >F:: DVD/CD burner >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >| Drive 2 - 80GB WD Caviar >G:: 80GB - Swap File 4GB minimum 4GB maximum, backup files, Alt.binz & >| it's temporary downloads >| Drive 3 - 80GB Deskstar >H:: 80GB - TrueCrypt encrypted partition >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >| My rational: >| 1. Windows on a small quick to defrag partition >| 2, Windows on the fastest drive >| 3. Swap file on a separate drive to help prevent thrashing between >| swap files and OS and/or programs >4:: Only C and G's portable program folder need to be defraged on a >| regular basis since the others are rarely used archive files or files >| that are destined to be burned to DVD/CD I have set Puran Defrag to >| automatically do a boot time defrag on C: once a week I manually >| defrag G's portable programs folder a few times/month. > >If you Sawp File is on a volume of the same hard disk that was partiotioned - you cgain NO >benefit. > >It needs to be a separate, physical, hard disk such that the read/writes can be >multi-tasked bwtwen the OS drove and the swap drive. Look again. Swap file is on Drive2 *not* the OS drive. (edited 8GB sb 80GB ;-)) regards Dud -- We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. Thomas Jefferson
From: Duddits on 18 Jul 2010 11:11
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:45:02 -0400, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: >From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> > >| If you Sawp File is on a volume of the same hard disk that was partiotioned - you cgain >| NO >| benefit. > >| It needs to be a separate, physical, hard disk such that the read/writes can be >| multi-tasked bwtwen the OS drove and the swap drive. > > >WoW that was bad :-) > >If your Swap File is on a volume of the same hard disk that was partitioned - you gain NO >benefit. > >It needs to be on a separate, physical, hard disk such that the read/writes can be >multi-tasked batween the OS drive and the swap drive. It is :-/ Dud |