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Mass Backup - ISO?
Name: Chad Johnson (by ChadJohnson) Date: January 22, 2005 at 22:29:32 Pacific OS: Knoppix CPU/Ram: n/a
Comment:
I am going to back up about 5 GB of various files (about 2000 files in all - *LEGAL* music files/documents) for my friend, all located in the same folder (and subfolders), then I am reinstalling a fresh copy of Windows on his harddrive. I'm using Knoppix and I'm copying the files to my harddrive.
Which would be better for my harddrive and which would be faster: doing a plain and simple copy of the folder from his drive to mine, then back to his after the installation, OR copying the files from his drive into an ISO file on my drive, then extracting from the ISO file back to his drive after the installation?
I know it would take time to actually build the ISO file, but would it take more time considering all the harddrive reads that would have to be done the other way?
Name: hippiejoeland (by HippieJoeLand) Date: January 23, 2005 at 14:04:04 Pacific
Reply:
I would just copy the individual files to another hard disk, then install your windows, then copy the files back. I did something similar a little while ago concerning music as well. Here is the link, it came up with a command that worked great. I am sure you could make it work for you as well.
Name: 3Dave Date: January 24, 2005 at 01:41:33 Pacific
Reply:
If you have a 32bit system you may have problems with a 5Gb file if you don't have large file support enabled in your kernel....stick to just copying the files.
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