Jim,

I only used MS Backup up until the first time I needed it and it failed me.
That is when I bought my first "speedy" 2X CD burner and put a second drive
in my PCs. In my view, a backup program must work 100% of the time and over
the years in these newsgroups, I have found this is not the case for MS
Backup. When I want to back something up, I either make an image on a
second hard drive or, depending on the size, use a CD.

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"Jim" wrote in message
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Thank-you Ron,
I was around in the oldie goldie IBM 360/370 days, and with pdp11
workstations in the lab. I never had to worry about this stuff much.
Professional staff at university did all this for us. I will make a mirror
of it on a cd. The question I have is what is it doing when it backs up to
Mybackup.qic. Is this not a compressed version of what is sent to Seagate
or
other online libraries at a fee?
"Ron Badour" wrote in message
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Personal CD burners did not exist when MS Backup was written. People did
use a series of floppies if they did not have a tape unit.

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"Jim" wrote in message
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Would not a floppy be to small? I have 1.44 MB, that would be too
small,
True? This is a total system backup not a money file or just doc files.
I
think you mean [burn a cd] image of this.
"Richard G. Harper" wrote in message
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These days most folks don't use backup, they use a disk imaging
program
to
create a clone of the entire hard drive at once. Much faster and much
easier than MSBACKUP. Remember it was written in the days when folks
used
either floppy diskettes or tape drives for backup.

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"Jim" wrote in message
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Thank-you!
I will use a cd. This [overwrite] option was the course that I took
when
using the backup app. If this was bad choice, why is it in the
options,
and
worse yet, I wonder how many people out there are not backing up
correctly?