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

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Jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
But I did stop backuping up to DVDs.

I found it better to backup to hard drive.
For many, many reasons

They both have their place ... and neither is completely reliable. I tend
to regard DVDs as backups and HDD copies as working copies, but I make
both.

- DVD RWs rather than DVD Rs are the only way to go in terms of cost.

Blank DVD-Rs are cheap, and make good archive copies. DVD-RWs are a few
times the price and not as reliable - I use them for data transfer, and for
short-term archives of things I won't cry over if they vanish. Not for
backups.

And with CDs , and no doubt DVDs too, there is this "Factory" issue.
You can buy whatever make of CD or DVD, but all that counts is the
factory, and you can end up with ritek. And that is not advertised.
(Maybe imation tend not to use bad factories? I heard they are a good
make).

Buy from a good dealer who tells you who made the disks and what dye was
used. svp.co.uk have a good rep around here.

- It takes time, you have to keep coming back to the machine and
swapping DVDs.

That's one reason that I keep critical and fast-changing data in DVD-sized
partitions. Only one DVD needed to back up.

- DVDs or CDs, are not instantly/transparently accessible. It is good
for portability, taking them to "end users" in the family - in a
techie`s bag. And good for if I really need something.. But not for
frequent access.

They may be good for disaster scenarios..

That's the thing about backups. You hope you *never* need to access them.

It's not just reinstalling Windows ... it's reinstalling and then
running update to get the 90-odd hotfixes <snip>

I would slipstream a cd that has it, make an ISO of it, make a few
CDs

I agree that a slipstreamed copy of the OS with all the updates would be
nice to have ... but (unless you know of a more efficient way of doing it)
life is too short to add all those updates. It's worth slipstreaming an SP,
but the 90-odd hotfixes since?

I am not that big on windows updates anyway. What are they for?
securing IE and OE?

All sorts of things. Yes, often patching the leaks in IE and OE (which I
don't use anyway) but also fixing and updating core Windows components that
one does have to use. Ignore them at your peril!

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.


Currently, I prefer it the other way around (at this stage of linux
and myself)..
Running windows, and keeping "linux" under dhimmitude (with cygwin)

My point was not about Windows/linux, but that one can keep a 'virgin'
installation of an (any) OS in a VM image -- copy it as needed -- and
manage the working environment that way.

I choose to run Windows under linux rather than linux under Windows because
I want to run the less secure OS under the control of the more secure,
rather than vice versa.

Cheers,
Daniel.


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