Re: New year, clean install, any advantage to having applications on D: instead of C:?

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, Jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
in your favour(and mine - since I mentioned it first!!), the point
about the drive label would answer my criticisms.

You did.

And an argument against me would be the capacity issue. If backing up
(imaging rather) a big partition(OS+ data/prog-installation-exes), it
creates a big image.

I used to keep data that I wanted to back up regularly on roughly
DVD-sized partitions (actually a bit bigger than DVDs, but never
allowed to get too full) so that I could just burn the whole partition
to DVD as a means of backing up/archiving/transferring to another
machine. That works well ... but ~5GB per data partition doesn't feel
like much space, these days.

Imaging works well for larger partitions, partly because the image
files are usually compressed and partly because decent imaging programs
allow the image to be broken down into manageable (e.g. DVD-sized)
chunks. The disadvantage is that one need to run special de-imaging
software to restore the data, and can't just pop a DVD into a drive and
read its filesystem natively.

Bigger partitions can be backed up to DDS/DLT/AIT tapes or onto other
hard drives -- though none of this is particularly cheap. It will
usually be cheaper than recreating the data from scratch, though, even
assuming that that is possible.

I tend not to make images that often, I have taken te route of
reinstalling windows.

It's not just reinstalling Windows ... it's reinstalling and then
running update to get the 90-odd hotfixes that have come out since the
latest SP, and then reinstalling all the applications that have their
claws into the registry. It's getting to be a bore, so I do take an
image backup of the of whole system after installation and update of
the OS and my standard set of apps ... and if I need to recover I
restore from that image.

Better still, I run Windows in a VM (under linux, as it happens, but it
could by under any OS (including another copy of Windows)) and I can
keep a 'virgin' copy of the Windows system ready to restore if needed.
That 'virgin' copy is backed up to DVD, of course.

Cheers,
Daniel.



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