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John has a very good question. I would like to add another related one.
For fast recovery from a disk crash, using a second hard drive and putting the image of the first hard drive on the second one is a great idea. However, many of us start to have two, three, or even four computers. Having a second hard disk for each computer may not be the best option. Also, in case of theft of a computer, both hard drives would be taken with the computer; all the data would be gone.
Long time ago, Phil, and recently Mark, suggested using ONE USB external hard drive so to take backups from several computers. In this situation, what is the best practice to use Casper (or another backup software), so if any one system drive crashes, one can recover quickly from the backups in that ONE external hard drive? Also what if one has two partitions in a system disk, as in a multi-boot setup? Has anyone worked out the best practice? Could you share with the group?
TIA
hc
-----Original Message-----
From: jbclem1 [mailto:jbclem1@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 6:39 PM
To: true_blue88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Awesome experience with Disc cloning software
John
I also recently downloaded the Casper XP trial but I didn't use it because I
wasn't sure of the effect it has on a current partition. I want to copy
everything from my 2nd hard drive onto a partition in my 3rd hard drive.
Then I'll replace the 2nd hard drive with a new hard drive and copy
everything back onto it. It's not clear in the Casper XP help files if I
can copy onto my 3rd hard drive without changing the partition or
overwriting everything that's already on it. There is plenty of free space
in this partition. Do you know enough about this to be able to explain it
to me? What does it mean that the trial version won't resize the volume.
Will it actually shrink the current partition down to the size of the cloned
#2 drive, in the process destroying other data? The help files are
minimalist and actually little help at all.
John
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