Re: Recommended size of OS partition?

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In article <VA.00001383.21892aac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Daniel James
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In article
news:<tonsu3ll3vubkb8rligviogfemte19gae7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
install them on C: - they're almost entirely static
files anyway, so splitting them out to another partition doesn't
really gain you anything.

It reduces the size of the backup set for the C partition.

Why? Does it magically shrink data?

You've missed the point! Having a backup partition image for the boot
volume provides a guaranteed method of undoing any nastiness perpetrated
by unruly apps or trojans or even fsck ups by the OS itself. You don't
need to back up the apps as well for this purpose, so you can create
compact and tidy, quick to restore images of the boot partition.

If you think backing up the installed apps is worth doing, you can use
a different regime for this. Unless you're constantly churning the
installed apps, it's surprising how little needs to be done to bring
everything back together even if using a 6 month old system partiton
backup. The whole point of the seperate system volume backup is to
downgrade the consequences from "Total and Utter Disaster" to "Minor
Inconvenience".

To demonstrate just how fast such a restore can be, I can be rebooting
into the restored partition within two minutes of booting from the
win95osr2 boot floppy needed to give PQDI a command line interface from
which to launch the restore process.

Since I've also moved my desktop and start menu off drive C to another
disk volume (a tricky process to set this one up), the only remaining
tasks are to play catchup with windows updates and possibly re-install
one or two apps if the backup used was more than 3 months old (Hell,
even using a 2 year old backup instead of having to re-install win2k
from scratch, leaves me a winner several times over!:-).

If you have a third partition space (or seperate drive) for mostly user
data, you can utilise backup strategies optimised for each class of data
(OS, Apps and user data) far more easily. Seperating the OS from the
apps and data does more than simplify and streamline your backup
strategy, it also boosts system performance by coralling those
wanderlusty OS files into the fastest 8 or 10 GB of the drive,
preventing them from contributing to fragmentation of the apps and data
files, turning the defragmentation task into a rather academic exercise.

HTH

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