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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Advice on partions for hard drive
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 02:12:18 PST
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- In <paulk.0ucm@terapin.com>, paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) wrote:
- > re advantages of few vs. many partitions --
- >
- > There's no advantage of backupability of separate partitions vs. just
- > backing up drawers, which I do. The only thing I back up more than
- > once a week or so is the drawer with my source code in it. Nothing
- > else changes that much or is all that important.
-
- Unless you sort the drawers at the root of your HD by how they should
- be backed up, this isn't true. Different backup programs may change
- the pain involved in ignoring that restriction, but I've as yet to see
- one that made it zero.
-
- Since the backup frequency and activity are related, building
- partitions based on one usually give you the other, and thus a double
- win.
-
- <mike
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