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Old 06-26-2006, 07:41 PM
greengrass greengrass is offline
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Advantage of Backing Up Just User Files

One advantage of backing up just user files (or even a subset of user files) is limited space on an external drive. For example, my backup strategy is to do a Monday through Saturday nightly backup to one partition and a once a week Sunday night backup to a second partition. With a 160 GB main drive, even a 250 GB external drive doesn't have room for two full clones. So I set up one partition large enough for a full clone (the weekly one) and the second partition large enough for just my main user. That way, I always have a current nightly backup and a second backup that is between 1 day and 1 week behind.
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