[Techtalk] Partitioning hard drives

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 03:15:59PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Indefatigable42 thought:
> Rudy, I think that's what I'm looking for, to do a backup from one OS of
> selected folders on both partitions. Thanks!
> 
> The drive that I'm backing things up to would itself have to be partitioned,
> right? Or would it not matter?

In my case it doesn't matter.  However, I have to partition the drives
that I restore to if I have to restore from the backup.
 
I don't know if you would have to have an NTFS partition to backup the XP
drives to.  This will fail to use the 'cp -l'
make-link-to-preserve-versions method though.

Conor
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