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Why would somebody make different partitions anyway?
Authored by: deleted_user18 on May 31, '05 09:38:58AM

The black out could also easily hit your data partition. You just had luck.

You need a proper backup strategy. A backup partition which just is backuped to is no backup. What happend to you can happen evertime, the computer dies while the backup is made and you have two corrupted copies of your files. Because of this you should make different backups.



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Why would somebody make different partitions anyway?
Authored by: jesboat on Jun 20, '05 04:09:05PM

Certainly, his data partition could have been wiped too, but with his strategy, there's also the potential for it to be OK. The point isn't to forgo backups and proper protection because "my separate-partitions-ness will save me", but that, should everything else fail, there's one more hope.

Jesboat

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