Backup Software - Re: Ghost is taking ever to backup win2000 of about 2 meg

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Re: Ghost is taking ever to backup win2000 of about 2 meg

Gunrunnerjohn

2004-09-12, 7:45 am

There is no "Windows" version of GHOST. While there's a GUI, it still boots to
DOS (MS-DOS or DR-DOS) to actually do the transfer. You might want to
understand the topic a bit more before you make recommendations.

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:04:52 +0200, Frank <mails2day@gmx.net> wrote:

>wanna check out the "BART PE" solution (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder),
>which allowes you to build a CD-bootable WindowsXP. There you can
>integrate the Windows-based version of Ghost. This should run MUCH faster,
>because WindowsXP would load the DMA capable drivers. Same applies if you
>back up the Images to a network drive and you have a Realtec NIC (the DOS
>drivers are crap). Speeds up the Imaging process by 400%.