On 24 Feb 98 at 17:41, Arnie Robuck wrote: > I think you are going way to far right for what you want to do. The > quickest, easiest and cheapest way to a complete backup of your system is to > use a tape. SCSI is a more efficient and quicker way of accomplishing it but > is a little pricy. There are all kinds of tape backup systems out there. > Just find the one that is in your price range and then get a backup program > that will take a mirror image of your drive and store it on the tape. Then > if you have a crash, all you have to do is restore from tape. Total cost, > maybe 2 or 3 hundred dollars. And it's simple. This is pretty close to what I do. The tricky part is getting the machine to the state where the "restore" process can run, and I interpreted Bassem's message as asking for a procedure that minimized that effort. I presumed that he had already considered something like the above, and rejected it. Re-reading his message, I can see that I may have been mistaken about that. David G > -----Original Message----- > From: David Gillett <[log in to unmask]> > > On 24 Feb 98 at 17:57, BASSEM FAHMY wrote: > > > I wonder, How can I backup all in my HD by the way that when any accident > > happen to my HD I will just format my HD and copy the backup to my HD > again > > WHITEOUT RE-INSTALL EACH PROGRAM FROM THE BEGGING using the > > CD R/W as an example and after logging into win95 again (after copy or do > > the restore the backup) I will find every thing as I keep it before format > > the HD ! > > I think the answer is to use something like DriveCopy (or the > partition copy feature in Partition Magic), or to set up drives in a > RAID-0 mirror configuration. Either of these means buying twice as > much HD as you actually get to use; mirroring updates automatically, > but probably means buying an expensive controller. It still might be > competitive with tape for backups, though, especially if you're > already using SCSI and NT.... > > David G >