partitioning and backup strategy etc.
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From: jim.s.witherspoon on 17 Jul 2010 22:24 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
From: David H. Lipman on 17 Jul 2010 23:27 From: "jim.s.witherspoon" <jim.s.witherspoon(a)gmail.com> | 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 Don't partition. It adds nothing. If you want the OS and data on different drives, get another hard disk instead. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: M.L. on 18 Jul 2010 04:02 >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? C and D. >What do you have on each partition? C: Operating system and some programs. D: Programs only. >How big is the partition that has your Windows >directory? Half of the 250 GB drive. >What partitioning tool(s) do you use? Easeus Partition Manager 2.0 Pro (via a free giveaway period). >What's your strategy for backing up your partitions? Backup C drive once/month. >What tool(s) do you use? Macrium Reflect Free.
From: mike on 18 Jul 2010 04:41 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. > > jim This is hotly debated with bi-modal opinions. I frequently get calls from friends, "I trashed my *****, how do I get it back?" Just reload the backup. Don't have one. You have the program, why don't you use it? Cause it takes forever and it's 500GB and I have nowhere to put it. Partitioning is the KEY to a usable backup strategy for most of us. But few people listen. Objective: keep your system backed up. Thesis: if it's hard or slow or big or annoying, you won't do it. Solution: Make your C partition as small as is comfortable. ON C, install windows, anything microsoft, anything requiring phone home to activate, anything difficult to reinstall or configure. I have 16GB of stuff in that class for win7. XP takes quite a bit less. Put everything else on a different partition...or two...or three depending on how big you drive is. That includes your mp3 collection, your movie collection, your TV "pause" files, anything with a database, mapping data, archives, backups, anything that's trivial to reinstall. I recommend you NOT use any of the default MS storage locations. Put stuff you want to keep in directories YOU made and periodically delete the bloat in the default directories in documents and settings and users directories. If you value it, get it outa there and put it where you can find it...but I digress. Anything you care about is already on a DVD..right? Baby pictures, wedding pictures, divorce papers, tax data, etc. Every day on Craigslist, some poor sap pleads for the return of his stolen laptop cause it has his baby pictures on it. If you value it, back it up NOW!!! Never leave home with the only copy of anything. Use an imaging program like Acronis to make an image of C onto D. I can back up my C drive in about 10 minutes while I'm using the computer. It's quick, easy, doesn't take up a lot of space, so you have no excuse not to do it frequently. I can start with a blank hard drive and be back up and running within half an hour. Takes quite a bit longer to get DEF...copied back over the network. You're now protected against many kinds of issues. Idiocy, deleting stuff you shouldn't have, Microsoft drive-by "updates" that screw up something....simple malware. But you should copy your C backup image and any data you care about from DEF... onto a second hard drive that's not connected to the machine. USB external drive that's TURNED OFF when you're not copying backups to it, networked drive on another computer. Save an image to a set of DVD's periodically. And if you want to be protected against your house burning down, copy the data offsite. Anybody who thinks a second hard drive on the same machine solves anything hasn't thought it thru. Most of my problems have come from trying out freeware. That problem gets solved by having plug-in hard drives. I have a second hard drive that's a copy of the main drive. I plug in the secondary drive when I "evaluate" freeware. IF I like it, and it doesn't screw up anything else, I swap drives and reinstall it on the main drive. That second drive comes in handy if you decide to surf an IFFY website or two.
From: John Corliss on 18 Jul 2010 05:55
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. -- John Corliss BS206. Because of all the Googlespam, I block all posts sent through Google Groups. I also block as many posts from anonymous remailers (for example, usenet4all.se, x-privat.org, dizum.com, tioat.net, frell.theremailer.net) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please. |