Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > It seems to me like a shame that there hasn't been more interest and > effort in getting BackupPC working better on Windoze because now it > really is only useful for limited user file backups. Without > proper treatment of the registry, ACLs, and all the other details of > NTFS, I wouldn't want to rely on BackupPC to restore system-level files > or even executable programs. This means that I still need to do > occasional full disk clones which typically require manual > intervention (unless you buy commercial software) and take up lots of > space since they don't offer the pooling functionality. > I think the going theory (my theory, anyway) is that if a Windows system crashes, you might as well use the opportunity to do a fresh install. Windows seems to need that once in a while anyway. Maybe your experience is different, but I find that Windows generally has "aging problems". It behaves worse and worse over time.
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