Mike Singer wrote:

>> Regening the system always results in a few losses.
> 
> If you were serious about your data, you wouldn't rely only on HDD. 

Not sure where you get this from. HDD is IMO one of the best backup media
around.

> I this case you would backup all your data. So reinstalling the system on
> a new drive would not harm you. 

I've done reinstalls with complete backups available, and even the old disk
running in parallel. No data loss in the backup sense, but it still
"harmed" me. I'm not sure what losses John was writing about, but until
everything works as before is a long way. Some things only come up months
later -- when you use /these/ three applications together and realize that
/something/ doesn't work as before. I, like the vast majority of computer
users, don't have a complete set of test cases for my system configuration
:)  And with reasonably complex system and application configurations,
that's more or less independent of the particular OS. 

I'm also reasonably sure that John knows he can have both drives in the
computer (arguably necessary for the copy process he inquired about),
independently of whether he copies the system or regenerates it, so he's
probably not talking about losing a few schematics files (which would
continue to be available on the old disk).

Gerhard

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