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| Howard Kaikow 2005-12-01, 8:48 pm |
| Installed Ghost 10 this week.
A few questions:
1. AFTER defining a "recovery point set", how does once change the
properties of that "recovery point set"?
In particular, I forgot to specify verify during the backup, so I have to
manually verify each recovery point after the backup is done. With 10
logical drives, that's rather tedious.
I have not been able to find a way to change the properties of the "recovery
point set".
2. I get the impression from reading the user's guide that a verify during
the backup does not verify the content of files.
Is that so? Not very useful, if true.
3. I successfully used Ghost yesterday and the day before to make recovery
point sets. A recovery point set consists of a base recovery point and
incremental recovery points.
So today, I was rather surprised when I got error EC8F17B7, indicating not
enough disk space. Heck, there was 17GB available, more than enough for an
incremental recovery point.
Did Ghost decide to do a full backup?
That needs to be my choice, not the software's.
4. I find the Ghost 10 user's guide quite lacking and have found the Ghost
info at Symantec's support site quite poor.
Did not find anything when searching for EC8F17B7.
--
http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
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| GhostMan 2005-12-01, 8:48 pm |
| 1. I think you can select the backup definition and then select edit.
I don't have Ghost 10 on this pc so I can't tell you exactly where.
2, The verify function verifies the structure and integrity of the
image file and the chain of pointers in it record to record. To my
knowledge it doesn't verify the contents against the original source,
which is what burning cd's usually do.
3. Remember that Ghost is a sector backup program, not file backup
program. So if a number of sectors has changed then Ghost
automatically takes a full image instead of just a incremental one. If
you defrag the drive after the initial backup, that would pretty much
guarantee an incremental wouldn't be taken because of all the sectors
that changed.
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| Howard Kaikow 2005-12-02, 2:47 am |
| "GhostMan" <ghost4me@cox.net> wrote in message
news:1133485145.101682.30920@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> 1. I think you can select the backup definition and then select edit.
> I don't have Ghost 10 on this pc so I can't tell you exactly where.
Yes, but Ghost appears to treat an attempt to edit settings as if one is
creating a NEW recovery point set, so if there is not enough space on the
volume to create a NEW recovery point set, it warns you, and I'm afraid to
go further/
> 2, The verify function verifies the structure and integrity of the
> image file and the chain of pointers in it record to record. To my
> knowledge it doesn't verify the contents against the original source,
> which is what burning cd's usually do.
A TRUE backup program MUST check the content AT THE TIME OF BACKUP, to
verify things.
Recording CDs is not relevant to this issue.
> 3. Remember that Ghost is a sector backup program, not file backup
> program. So if a number of sectors has changed then Ghost
> automatically takes a full image instead of just a incremental one.
If so, what is the criteria for doing so, the user's guide needs to specify
the criteria.
> If
> you defrag the drive after the initial backup, that would pretty much
> guarantee an incremental wouldn't be taken because of all the sectors
> that changed.
If I did a defrag, then I would choose to do a new backup myself.
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| Edit My Backup Schedules/Right Click Entry/Choose Edit Settings...
Yes, it warns you about things that were decided when creating the
schedule... ignore it.
-- John
"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
news:dmo2uq$2m8c$1@pyrite.mv.net...
> Installed Ghost 10 this week.
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1. AFTER defining a "recovery point set", how does once change the
> properties of that "recovery point set"?
>
> In particular, I forgot to specify verify during the backup, so I have to
> manually verify each recovery point after the backup is done. With 10
> logical drives, that's rather tedious.
>
> I have not been able to find a way to change the properties of the
> "recovery
> point set".
>
> 2. I get the impression from reading the user's guide that a verify during
> the backup does not verify the content of files.
> Is that so? Not very useful, if true.
>
> 3. I successfully used Ghost yesterday and the day before to make recovery
> point sets. A recovery point set consists of a base recovery point and
> incremental recovery points.
>
> So today, I was rather surprised when I got error EC8F17B7, indicating not
> enough disk space. Heck, there was 17GB available, more than enough for an
> incremental recovery point.
>
> Did Ghost decide to do a full backup?
> That needs to be my choice, not the software's.
>
> 4. I find the Ghost 10 user's guide quite lacking and have found the Ghost
> info at Symantec's support site quite poor.
> Did not find anything when searching for EC8F17B7.
>
> --
> http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
>
>
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| Howard Kaikow 2006-01-09, 5:51 pm |
| "JohnA" <John@discardstring-TheAtas.org> wrote in message
news:uKRvf.44902$Ou3.8534@dukeread09...
> Edit My Backup Schedules/Right Click Entry/Choose Edit Settings...
>
> Yes, it warns you about things that were decided when creating the
> schedule... ignore it.
I do not schedule backups, only run them manually.
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| You just define the schedule as manual (uncheck Schedule Recovery Point
Creation)... it still allows you to edit the settings.
"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
news:dpucf0$afd$1@pyrite.mv.net...
> "JohnA" <John@discardstring-TheAtas.org> wrote in message
> news:uKRvf.44902$Ou3.8534@dukeread09...
>
> I do not schedule backups, only run them manually.
>
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