partitioning and backup strategy etc.
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From: s|b on 18 Jul 2010 12:55 On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:27:16 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote: > Don't partition. It adds nothing. If you want the OS and data on different drives, get > another hard disk instead. Why would I do that? A second drive costs money and I have enough gigabytes with one hdd. A second hdd would be a waste of money and space (that I don't use). So I have partitioned /one/ drive: C: Windows, D: Data. I save backups on a external hdd (two external hdd's actually). This suits me just fine. -- s|b
From: Duddits on 18 Jul 2010 12:57 On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:15:23 -0400, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: > >| Look again. Swap file is on Drive2 *not* the OS drive. (edited 8GB sb >| 80GB ;-)) > >OK, was confused by the layout/wording. Mea culpa. no problemo ;-) Dud -- Easy ACF Troll filter: 1. Add Franklin, Hummingbird, Bear Bottoms, Ari, David W, Jeffrey Bloss, Nicodemus and John Stubbings. 2. Add *anyone* who replies to them. 3. Filter posts from Google Groups 4. Filter posts from x-privat.org 5. Filter posts from theremailer 6. Filter crossposts 7. Enjoy ACF! 8. More Info here: http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/forgery.htm <rev20100104>
From: Duddits on 18 Jul 2010 13:05 On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:55:30 +0200, "s|b" <me(a)privacy.invalid> wrote: >On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:27:16 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote: > >> Don't partition. It adds nothing. If you want the OS and data on different drives, get >> another hard disk instead. > >Why would I do that? A second drive costs money and I have enough >gigabytes with one hdd. A second hdd would be a waste of money and space >(that I don't use). So I have partitioned /one/ drive: C: Windows, D: >Data. I save backups on a external hdd (two external hdd's actually). >This suits me just fine. I use more than one drive for the following reasons. 1. Backups - If the main drive takes a dump the backups are easily restored to a new drive. Drives do go bad and if it hasn't happened to you it will. 2. Swap file - Having your swap file on a separate drive speeds your drive up. 3. I don't do it but many do - RAID http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID regards Dud -- "Science advances one funeral at a time." Max Planck
From: dadiOH on 18 Jul 2010 13:24 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? Here's a picture of mine... http://mysite.verizon.net/xico/pix/Drives.jpg There are two physical drives Primo-MyStuff (C:) Loki-C+Win98 (I:) All other drives are logical ones in extended partitions. Each drive has an XP install. The one that is used is on F: and XP program installs are there too; the one on L: is a minimal one, no Inet, just a couple of utilities and is for a worst case scenario. I have never really needed it. I used to multi-boot and C: has all the programs that were installed on it under Windows 98. Yes, they work withXP. It also has an accumulation of 10 years of saved stuff. When I was using Win 98 I used to copy the drive to a backup drive. That's what I: is. I no longer have need for it but have no particular reason to dump it either. Just auld lang syne :) The purposes of the partitions is explained in the names. I rather like separating the drives by function. The drive labels are the names of critters - dogs, cats, ducks - that have shared their lives with me. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
From: dadiOH on 18 Jul 2010 13:25
dadiOH 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? > > Here's a picture of mine... > http://mysite.verizon.net/xico/pix/Drives.jpg > > There are two physical drives > Primo-MyStuff (C:) > Loki-C+Win98 (I:) > > All other drives are logical ones in extended partitions. > > Each drive has an XP install. The one that is used is on F: and XP > program installs are there too; the one on L: is a minimal one, no > Inet, just a couple of utilities and is for a worst case scenario. I > have never really needed it. > > I used to multi-boot and C: has all the programs that were installed > on it under Windows 98. Yes, they work withXP. It also has an > accumulation of 10 years of saved stuff. When I was using Win 98 I > used to copy the drive to a backup drive. That's what I: is. I no > longer have need for it but have no particular reason to dump it > either. Just auld lang syne :) > The purposes of the partitions is explained in the names. I rather > like separating the drives by function. > > The drive labels are the names of critters - dogs, cats, ducks - that > have shared their lives with me. I forgot...I use Paragon Hard Drive Manager for all partioning and imaging. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |