riverman wrote:
Wanna put that in English, Stan?

My message was for the hardcore geeks, not you, but I'll explain a bit.

partition: a logical disk. This can be an entire physical disk, a slice of
a physical disk, or even spread over mutiple physical disks, Actually
there's a difference between a partition and a logical disk, but for this
conversation, logical disk is good enough. When you reference 'C:' in
Windows, you're referencing a partition on a physisal disk.

image: in this context I'm talking about, a compressed copy of a partition.
You can also take an image of a physical disk. The software I use creates
the image in multiple files of 4.5GB so I can burn them to DVD.

You can take an image of a partition, and restore it completely. For
example, if you had just a C: drive, you could restore your system in
minutes from an image.

The thing you're asking for, real time backup of touched files, I have no
experience with. I like to control stuff manually.

I'll assume you're running XP. There's a tool called robocopy in the XP
resource kit (along with lots of useful and potentially dangerous stuff)
that can do something like what you're trying to do, only manually. Here's
a link to the download page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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Stan Gula
http://gula.org/roffswaps