Re: DFSEE Image Restore Question

Brendan McCullough wrote:
jch wrote:

Are there any DFSEE experts out there who use OS/2, and have successfully used it to restore an OS/2 image of a given partition size to another partition size (on another disk, for instance) with success, meaning that the restored partition boots properly?
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Brendan,

Thanks for this link. I joined up, and it looks like my question is
answered there by JvW himself.

The fundamental difference between the OS/2 Backup Exec program (with a tape machine) and DFSEE is that the former is file system based, while the latter is sector based.

The file system based backup/restore approach is also employed by Linux and BSD via the dump/restore utilities. In the Unix world, one can move a system from one disk to another easily, even if the size is different. This is because one has to define the various partitions first, then one creates the file system(s). After that is done, one can run restore using a source file on another disk. The restore utility rebuilds all the files, plus the soft and hard links. A boot sector is written to the new disk, and presto.

/ John

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Regards / JCH
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