TW>JE>I was under the impression that backups had two main purposes:
TW>JE>1. Give one the ability to recover grunged data in case of a disastrous
TW>JE>failure. This would enable one to recover and use his programs and data
TW>JE>if his HD totally failed - I have had to do exactly that. My HD became
TW>JE>unusable  due to a mechanical failure. I used True Image to restore ALL
TW>JE>to a new HD.

TW>True but somen programs make it very inconvinent to back up just the
TW>data easily. Mostly by Thinking THEY know better where the Data should
TW>reside then you the Operator does. I being small potatoes don't have to
TW>much data to back up but I have a bat file that drops to DOS and uses
TW>XCOPY to copy my most important Data to a Removable drive.

Tom, it is a gross mistake to backup JUST the data. Logically, one
should back up the entire C: HD. That way, if the C: drive should
crater, using TI for the back up program one can restore programs AND
data to a new HD. If one only backs up the data and t he C: drives
craters then one would have to totally reload all the programs and then
install the data. Lots of time consuming work!

Jay
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