01-10-05 12:45 PM
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:56:17 -0500, "Bill Henderson"
<billhenderson@sympatico.ca> wrote :
>I am trying to use Norton Ghost 9.0 to backup a 'stand-alone' 60GB =
laptop.=20
>No problem with a full backup as the HD is under 50% used. I can store =
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>file on the unused area of the HD breaking the files into 650mb segments=
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>then burn to CDs (28 of them!) to free up the space again. Doing full=20
>backups every week is not a chore as they can run overnight but the =
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>burn to disc operation takes several hours. A 'Base' backup with=20
>incrementals can be handled the same way and the shorter incremental =
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>could be burned in a few minutes but the documentation seems to imply =
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>the Base file must be present when the incrementals are run which is not=
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>practical as it uses too much disc space. Is this so or does it only =
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>to be reloaded if you are doing a 'recovery'.
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>Any 'work-around' suggections?
I use Ghost 2003 so can't respond directly to your Ghost 9 question.
However, I'm amazed you take the time to burn 28 CD's!
A system restore from that would be a nightmare, and restoring
individual files would be virtually impossible.
Using CD's for incrementals also sounds a bit wasteful - unless Ghost
9 lets you put many backups onto the one CD.
When I got up to 12 CD's per backup, I switched to DVD, and still
didn't like having to do 4 of them! To restore individual files
without going insane swapping CDs or DVDs I had to copy all the files
to a second partition on my HDD.
My work-around suggestion is to buy an external USB2 or Firewire HDD
and use that for backup. They are pretty cheap and reliable, and one
would pay for itself within a few months from the cost of CD's saved.
I now use a Maxtor Series II 300GB and Dantz Retrospect for system and
incremental backups, but I also have a 80G FAT32 partition on it for
Ghost 2003 system backup images or clones. It's easier and quicker to
restore my system from a Ghost image, then update data using
Retrospect, than to do a full restore from Retrospect. With Ghost 9
you shouldn't have to go to that complication - just a Ghost 9 base
image then incremental updates, all available on the one external HDD.
I'm sure it's worth the cost, just in time saved, without considering
the CD costs and CD storage problems!
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Regards,
Peter Wilkins
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