Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 09:25:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <jeffrey_m._metcalf@ccmail.bms.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: metcalf@imagine.com Subject: Help: backup to hard drive? Message-ID: <9607018389.AA838917700@ccgate0.bms.com>
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Hello,
After all the advice that was given to me by the staff and
newsreaders at FreeBSD (for which I am very grateful), I
have decided on the best backup option for me. I believe
in terms of cost, and performance on both my FreeBSD
partition and my Win95 partition, that investing in a
second large hard drive is my best option. I am going
to purchase a SCSI-2 hard drive to be attached to my
Trantor SCSI controller on my ProAudioStudio sound board.
Do you anticipate any problems? I am running Win95 and
FreeBSD 2.1.0.
My primary question is: how should I format and partition
my new hard drive appropriately so that I will have a
DOS/Win95 partition and a UNIX partition such that they
contain only the most minimal formats and OS files necessary to
archive files to. In other words, I would like my UNIX partion
to not have to contain any unnecessary operating system files.
I want to optimize space by just putting 'tar' files there if
I can. I want a similar setup with my Win95 partition, but I
think I have the documentation and know how for that.
I believe in solving this, all my problems will have been addressed.
As always, thanks for your support.
J. Metcalf
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