[DEMUG] Format before refreshing for backup?

[James Baranski]

quick reformat or erase in disk utilities will do it.


On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Dick Atlee wrote:

> 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?
>
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