[DEMUG] Format before refreshing for backup?

[Dick Atlee]

James Baranski wrote:
> For your first question, it depends on what kind of backup software you 
> are using.
> Some will automatically erase a backup drive on starting a full backup, 
> some will not.
> So I'd say that it's best to erase the backup drive if you want to start 
> over.

Thanks, Jim.  But I'm not sure waht you mean by "erase"?  Trash files? 
Zero-out (that took me many hours on a 37G and this is 67G)?  Reformat?