Darren New wrote:
>> Its what the existing backup I have does, I think, but since it only 
>> backs up stuff it wants to, and doesn't use any compression, its a) a 
>> storage hog, and b) not terribly useful.
> 
> Ah. The Microsoft one does that sort of thing, except it uses zip files, 
> and it saves in the shadow volume history stuff information about where 
> it is in the zip files. So if you want to restore a messed up file, you 
> right-click, open up "previous versions", and it lists all the online 
> and offline backups of the files.
> 
> It would be *great* if you could get it to back up everything.
> 
> Mine just makes a second copy onto a compressed directory, so altho the 
> compression isn't as good as you could get with bzip or something, it's 
> not too bad. You could also use robocopy to compare versions and make 
> yourself some hard links, or use VSS then image the differences onto 
> another drive, or stuff like that. All kinds of funkiness.
> 
> A couple more links for things we've been talking about:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10157210-56.html?tag=nl.e703
> http://www.eventid.net/
> In case you actually care about it.
> 
> Me, drive space is so cheap these days I don't mind keeping both images 
> and incrementals-of-local-dirs on disks.
> 
Yeah. I bought the one touch specifically to help backups, but ended up 
also using it for installs and downloads, etc... I ran out of room on C 
and D. lol Mind, I have a Fedora partition I am not using, and if I had 
an old copy of partition magic and the guts to try, I would wipe it, 
move D: closer to the end of the drive, then resize "both" so that the 
OS and data/program partitions where bigger. lol

Might, if really lazy, just reinstall stuff, if I upgrade to 7. Which I 
probably will, due to too many things I have needing Windows. :p

Oh, on that note. This is kind of funny:

http://www.zdnet.com.au/video/soa/Ratbags-take-Windows-7-to-the-street/0,2000065477,22470997p,00.htm

Result, as they state: a) no one knows what Windows 7 looks like, and b) 
no one likes Vista. lol

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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