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- From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Advice on partions for hard drive
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- Message-ID: <mykes.09w7@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
- References: <1992Jul19.160045.2091@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <paulk.0ucm@terapin.com> <mwm.19dh@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 22 Jul 92 20:29:51 PST
- Organization: Amiga makes it possible
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- In article <mwm.19dh@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) writes:
- > 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.
- >
-
- tar -cvf tape: src:
- tar -cvf tape: bin:
-
- Put it in your crontab - can't be any easier than that :) Makes ZERO
- difference if src: and bin: are devices or assigns...
-
-
- > 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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