Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:75640 comp.sys.amiga.tech:17380 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: HD Errors Message-ID: <1991Jan3.235017.4175@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 3 Jan 91 23:50:17 GMT References: <37492@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan2.190655.15790@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Jan3.141624.25450@forwiss.uni-passau.de> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 35 hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) writes: >But Backup/Restore of a big partition is very anoying. >Yesterday a program open two files and boots the machine. >Now my hard disk is validating. But I won't format my disk! >I don't have lost any data (I still can read the disk), but backup >format and restore is not very nice. >Diskdoctor don't help and disksalv need's another disk :-(( Depends on your attitude, mostly. I couldn't afford a backup device when I bought my drive, so the next cheapest think was to use my drive as the restore area, sort of. I still make a copy of _everything_ to floppy, since I know my situation is dangerous. [But I also would prefer never being forced to recover my current environment from my (quite disorganized) floppy files.] But also, I formatted my HD into six partitions, with the last one getting the stray extra cylinders. I never put any thing in my SPARE: partition that can't be nuked at a moment's notice (I tend to unpack and repack big archives there, for instance). This means, the one time I've managed to clobber my PLAY: partition beta testing a buggy game, I just nuked the trash in SPARE: and used disksalv to recover PLAY: onto SPARE: So, at a cost of 1/6th of my HD storage capacity, I have a place to target disksalv, for now. Later, when I can afford a streaming tape drive, I'll start putting keeper stuff in SPARE: and doing nightly backups, but for now my drive is way under half full, and this was a cheap fix. Kent, the man from xanth.