[Discussion] Backup & restore of bootable partitions

[David Azarewicz]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:31:08 -0800 (PST), Jon wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:58:22 -0800 (PST), David Azarewicz wrote:
>
>>This is how I backup and also how I move my system to 
>>different/larger disks.  I never reinstall.
>
>What do you do for a newly installed OS?  Say for instance, from Warp 4 to ecs 
beta 2 booting from 
>jfs?

I don't have any bootable JFS.  All my boot partitions are small HPFS, and all 
my data partitions are large JFS. 

>  I'm wondering about a solution to restore the .ini settings when you install a 
new version of 
>the OS.

Now that is the big question, isn't it?  I haven't found a good solution to that 
problem yet.  I try to keep all programs, data, and customizations off of my boot 
partition, with the intent that I can wipe the boot partion and install a new os and 
all my programs and data haven't been affected.  Needless to say, that doesn't 
completely work because some programs insist on storing their data on the boot 
partition.  Also there is the data stored in the INI files.  I wish there was an easy 
solution. I would try out newer versions of eCS sooner if there was.  As it is now, 
it takes many hours over several weeks to upgrade my OS and get it back to the 
way I like it.  I have in mind to write a program to extract all the application data 
from the old INI files and put it into the new INI files. If only there were more 
hours in a day...

David


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