Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.miscPath: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs.uiuc.edu!sophocles.cs.uiuc.edu!ioergerFrom: ioerger@sophocles.cs.uiuc.edu (Thomas Ioerger)Subject: logic of backup?Message-ID: <C76G9J.6pK@cs.uiuc.edu>Sender: news@cs.uiuc.eduOrganization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, ILDate: Mon, 17 May 1993 15:27:18 GMTLines: 25I have been backing up my hard drive ever since I had to re-installeverything from scratch after a crash (learned the hard way, didn't I?!).I am using a windows-based backup program (actually Norton), and I began wondering about the logic of this.  Sure, if I accidentally deletea file, I can get it from the archive.  But what if my disk crashes again?I would not be able to start windows to run the backup program!  (Note,by crash, I mean, there was some error message that prevented the machinefrom booting properly.  I think I gave up too early, but I didn't havethe time/patience/tools to figure out exactly what the problem was.  Myhard drive needed cleaning up anyway. Yeah right...)  This whole scenariois complicated by the fact that I am using Stacker.So I think there are 2 possibilities:   1) I'm right.  If my disk really crashes, I would at least have to      re-install DOS and Windows to get the backup program working.   2) I'm wrong.  There is an easy way to make a "mirror" of a hard disk      that can easily restore it's state from scratch.The polls are open...Tom IoergerUniveristy of Illinois, CS grad studentioerger@cs.uiuc.edu