What's the size of a Rescue and Recovery 'set'?

[patfla]

Hi,

Rescue and Recovery on external media (not the partition on the main drive).

Searching through the forum here, most people say '6 or 7 disks'. I'm assuming these are CD (and not DVD) size. Taking 650MB for 1 disk; doing the two computations; and taking the average - one gets something a little over 4 GB.

And indeed, if you look in Windows Computer Mgmt | Disk Mgmt, you see that the Rescue and Recovery partition on the main drive is 3.95GB.

So those would seem to be in farily good agreement.

6 or 7 disks? Why can't one just put this on a single DVD (which would accomodate the necessary size)?

Although what I'm thinking (asking myself) is what's the minimum size USB drive that would accomodate the necessary stuff. It looks like 4 GB would be cutting it too tight (might not fit). However, there appears to be a very small 5 GB USB drive from Seagate that's round and would fit in the palm of your hand. It's $90 (a single DVD would be cheaper - and much faster than swapping in-and-out 6-7 CD-sized disks).

Still whatever one does, one needs to know the size.

pat

[christopher_wolf]

Well, you can, if I am not mistaken, put it on two optical media disks; one CD and one DVD. As far as I know, I don't think you can make just one DVD; rather, it seems to need the CD to set up a base operating system, much like a live CD, and the DVD to hold the rest of the Data.

I don't know about using a USB drive to do it; but I don't think it will work with the IBM Tools.

[brainpicker]

I agree with Mr. Wolf as I know from experience that I was only able to make it work using two pieces of media (one initial CD then the remainder on a DVD), not one. I also had a friend who tried to use storage other than CD's or the CD+DVD solution referenced by Mr. Wolf and myself, but my friend was unable to find a workable solution using any other storage methods tried.

But try it for yourself share your efforts with us here! If your idea does work I agree it would be very convenient.

Oh, by the way you did ask for storage size required... visually, all of my CD's look nearly maxed out but for the last one which looks about 1/3 burnt at most. I'm too lazy to put in each to get exact MB but this should be close enough. I'll let you do the math.

Yak