[X-Newbies] Got a question about the care and feeding of "disk images"

Steven Rogers srogers1 at austin.rr.com
Fri Jun 22 23:33:16 PDT 2007


On Jun 23, 2007, at 1:06 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> On Saturday 23 June 2007 07:59, Richard Ramsowr wrote:
>> Is it really necessary to keep and store such things
>> as the disk images of an application after a
>> successful install?
>
> Well, if you're sure you'll never have to install again......

Install the app, throw the image away, and make regular backups.  
Keeping the images around is an inefficient way to backup because you  
have to restore each app manually.

SR



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