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- From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Duo's: Are Redundant Systems A Good Idea?
- Message-ID: <sf_g=YC00VpA0S1aFF@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 18:58:12 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.sf_g=YC00VpA0S1aFF
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- Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:
- > My day to day system is in folder A, a backup system is in folder B.
- > I put A on my hard disk, I put B,in a folder, in a folder, on my hard
- > disk. When I start up the first system found is A, and if A is ok, the
- > Duo never looks for B. If A gets trashed, the Duo looks lower in the
- > hierachy until if finds B, it boots, and I can repair A and restart.
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- I'd also make sure that you name folders in such a way:
- folder zfolder.backup.system
- usual system folder
- folder
- backup system
-
- and then rebuild the desktop, because the mac does alphabetical
- scans of files, though this may not be necessary, because the system
- may be scanned before the rest of the fs is loaded...
-
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- -- faisal jawdat | "Certainly the game is rigged.
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