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Ghost is tracking whether you've scheduled incremental backups or not
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| Louise 2005-01-25, 2:45 am |
| I was looking at task manager and found a file pqsv2i.exe (or something
like that), running and taking 19,000+ k. It is connected to Ghost and
I suspect it is the tracking mechanism they use for incremental backups.
I do not have any incremental backups scheduled but it is running anyway
and taking resources.
Since I only use Ghost about once a week to do a full image (use Dantz
for nightly backups on a different drive), I resented using my resources
this way.
I went into Services and changed it from automatic to manual. Sure
enough, it didn't load.
Then, when I started Ghost, it loaded and was in task manager ONLY until
I rebooted. This is a resource hungry app and if you're not using Ghost
on a daily basis, it might be worth resetting it.
Louise
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| "Louise" <none@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c5fa2a6c6ca73b989768@news.newsguy.com...
> I was looking at task manager and found a file pqsv2i.exe (or something
> like that), running and taking 19,000+ k. It is connected to Ghost and
> I suspect it is the tracking mechanism they use for incremental backups.
>
> I do not have any incremental backups scheduled but it is running anyway
> and taking resources.
>
> Since I only use Ghost about once a week to do a full image (use Dantz
> for nightly backups on a different drive), I resented using my resources
> this way.
>
> I went into Services and changed it from automatic to manual. Sure
> enough, it didn't load.
>
> Then, when I started Ghost, it loaded and was in task manager ONLY until
> I rebooted. This is a resource hungry app and if you're not using Ghost
> on a daily basis, it might be worth resetting it.
>
> Louise
Wow-surprise (it was new for me), Symantec was integrated into its Ghost
PowerQuests V2i Protector.
I know very well that old V2i Protector and know how its working. V2i
service is running all the time because
it keeps tracking about partition sectors change and saves this information
into bitmap for incremental backup.
Believe me this is very dangerous technique and results filesystem
inconsistency after restoration from incremental
backup - if bitmat isnt acurate then some sectors becomes new and some old.
Dantz Retrospect is anyway the best backup software, very reliable
file-based backup and dont use V2i.
If you like sector-based backups then use Acronis TrueImage - it dont make
this bitmap but instead compares
every sector with checksum while incremental backup.
F
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| Louise 2005-01-25, 5:46 pm |
| In article <41f64966$0$175$bb624dac@diablo.uninet.ee>, <Folder> says...
> "Louise" <none@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1c5fa2a6c6ca73b989768@news.newsguy.com...
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> Wow-surprise (it was new for me), Symantec was integrated into its Ghost
> PowerQuests V2i Protector.
> I know very well that old V2i Protector and know how its working. V2i
> service is running all the time because
> it keeps tracking about partition sectors change and saves this information
> into bitmap for incremental backup.
> Believe me this is very dangerous technique and results filesystem
> inconsistency after restoration from incremental
> backup - if bitmat isnt acurate then some sectors becomes new and some old.
> Dantz Retrospect is anyway the best backup software, very reliable
> file-based backup and dont use V2i.
> If you like sector-based backups then use Acronis TrueImage - it dont make
> this bitmap but instead compares
> every sector with checksum while incremental backup.
>
>
> F
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I found V2I was slowing down my whole system!
Louise
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