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Number   :  62
Date     :  2001-05-17
Author   :  Jim Witherspoon
Subject  :  Re: Using XXCOPY to Back Up to CDRW
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> > I'm not a beleiver in allowing a drive over about
> eight gigs. I'd rather partition to smaller drives so
> that it is quick to do a defrag, scandisk and regclean
> which I do every day. Plus for purpose of backups it
> seems that a few gigs is easier than 40 or more.
> Jim S.

So far I've kept my FAT32 partitions less than 8.4GB - any more than that
(2^33 bytes I think), and the cluster size goes from 4K to 8K. Cluster size
goes to 16K if your partition is over 16GB. (I'll be glad to switch from
FAT32 to NTFS or its successor.) Though, for video stuff, 8GB can be too
confining.

Even with 8GB partitions, still that's 12 CDs or so, though compression
might reduce that a bit. For me, that's still incentive to divide a full HD
backup into several backup jobs. Looking into the future though, I figure
we'll be using DVD+RW when the media price is not so high in comparison to
CDR/RW.

jim w.



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