partitioning and backup strategy etc.
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From: Franklin on 19 Jul 2010 04:07 Duddits wrote: > 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. > > hth > > Dud How do the 2 program partitions C and D help performance/maintenance?
From: Mark Warner on 19 Jul 2010 12:21 POKO wrote: > > My house was hit over a year ago knocking out my well waterpump and > frying my work computer. I had/have my harddrive partitioned into: > C: os and programs > D: files > E: web pages > G: external hardrive used for backup > So getting back in business meant reloading windows on C and I was all > set to go. Of course, the lightning fried the guts of the tower leaving > only the case, the harddrive and dvd intact. I had a PSU short out and take my mobo and *both* hard drives. One drive was backing up the other. Now I back up to a separate machine running as a NAS on my LAN. -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Duddits on 19 Jul 2010 13:31 On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:05:58 -0400, Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Duddits wrote: >> Mark Warner wrote: >>> jim.s.witherspoon 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. >>> For some *real* fun, ask this on a Linux group. >> >> No matter what they say EXT3 drives get fragmented!!! ;-) >> >> hehehe > >Thus and such from a scourger troll. Your knowledge is less than low. thanks Dud
From: will_456 on 20 Jul 2010 05:15 On 18/07/2010 2:25 PM, Robb Scott wrote: > I don't backup C: > When I install my programs I install as many as possible to D: which is > backed up regularly. > I've never understood this practice especially with todays larger drives. When you install a program a lot of the files end up in C:\Windows\ System unless you tweak Windows to specify a different location for system files. All the registry entries and application settings are on C also. Backing up D with the installed programs on it is not going to help (unless they are truely self contained portable apps) because when C gets reformatted and Windows replaced, the programs on D have probably lost all their dependencies and settings and wont run. You can't have one without the other.
From: HTH on 20 Jul 2010 07:48
"will_456": I agree. Installing non-portable apps on a different partition (which may be on a different physical drive) is misguided for the reasons you state. A better solution is to create a boot partition sufficiently large to house the op/sys AND Program Files and to take a regular image of it for restoring when necessary. In my case I have a C:\ partition of 7GB and only about 1.5GB is used (XP-Pro-SP3) for op/sys and apps. All the MS stuff like "restore points" and "indexing" are disabled because I don't need them. This means that 7GB is ample space and makes imaging very quick. HTH |