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- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.132841.75884@fourd.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
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- From: Chris_M._Hanson@fourd.com
- Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 13:28:41 EST
- Subject: Re: Duo's: Are Redundant Systems A Good Idea?
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- > Good news! I've finally got my Duo 230!
- > Bad news! I don't have a mini dock or disk drive yet!
- >
- > As you can imagine, I'm *really* paranoid about crashing my system
- > under these circumstances. I have an idea in case I do, but am not
- > sure if it is safe. Let me know what you think of the following.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Any insight or usefull critisism will be greatly appreciated.
-
- Actually, it will look for A, not see it, and then not even think of B, If the
- boot blocks are not set to see B then it won't, also having to system folders
- can hangup a machine, I had it happen I 1 year ago on my Mac when I had sys 7
- and 6 on my one HD(now I have 2 HD and that solved the prob of having sys 6
- and 7). I thought DOUS had a local talk port on them, without any adaptors?
- mabey I'm wrong, but if they do just back up through file sharing.
- -Chris Hanson
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