[Ham-Computers] Re: Backup OS - making images

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 01:29:29 -0500

I have used a Ghost image that was taken from a paatition on a 40 gig drive on  PIII 1 Gig and installed the Ghost image on a PII 233 with a 6 gig drive. The total used space on the patition that the image was taken from was less than 6 gig and there was no trouble.

There were a few hardware issues to sort because the two machines had different video and modem. But the image saved the day.

One other issue, you can tell Ghost to break the image into 700 megs portions if you want to backup the image to CD-R./

Save your ghost images with the date you made the iamge. You will thank yourself for dating the image.

Jim Brampton
VE3 JIW
Toronto, ONtario Can/

> Just a question the the use of Ghost for creating a disk image of - can the disk you
> restore to be any make or model or does it have to be the same make and model?
>
> Eddie VK2BEH
>
> On 19 Dec 2002 at 18:54, Rolly (W7DGX) and Sandra Goodspeed wrote:
>
> > Thanks again. I did not know all the features of Ghost. I will go looking after the holidays. I believe Ghost will solve both my problems in one shot.
> >
> >         Rolly  W7DGX
> >
> >
> > "Hsu, Aaron" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Rolly,
> > >
> > > Funny...I was just about to e-mail you to see how everything was going and I read your recent post on the reflector.
> > >
> > > Symantec's GHOST is a GREAT program.  It's widely used and very simple.  With GHOST, you can backup a drive as an image (aka create a single, LARGE "image" file of all the files on your HD), backup a partition as an image (creates an image file of just one HD partition, or clone a drive
> (drive to drive copy).  If you really want to, you can even do a "forensic" image or copy (true sector-by-sector).  Luckily, by default, GHOST only does file-by-file copies - otherwise, we'd be waiting forever to copy those new 120GB drives!  You can image via drive to drive, drive to network
> drive/share, or via parallel ports (and I think the newest versions support USB to USB).  You can even GHOST different drive sizes - GHOST will warn you if the destination drive is smaller.  As long as the amount of actual data is less than the destination capacity, this won't be a problem.
> > >
> > > Using GHOST is easy.  Start GHOST, select Local --> Disk/Partition --> To/From Disk/Image.  Then select the source and destination, whether or not to compress the image  (if creating an image) and that's it.  GHOST does the rest.
> > >
> > > There are more advanced options which are not available via the GUI.  You invoke these options via a command line option when starting GHOST.  For example, the "-Zx" parameter specifies the amount of compression where "x" is a number from 0 to 9, 9 being highest.  In the GUI, the "fast"
> compression is eqivalent to "-Z1" and the "high" compression is equivalent to "-Z2".  As you can see, the command line option allows several "higher" compression settings.  One of my favorite options is "-SPLIT=x".  This tells GHOST to create image files no larger than "x" MB's.  I usually use "-
> SPLIT=640 -AUTO" to have GHOST split the HD backup image into 640MB "chunks" that I can fit onto CD-R's.  The "-AUTO" just tells GHOST not to prompt me for certain things.  To get a list of all the command line options available in GHOST, just type "GHOST -?" and it will show you.
> > >
> > > Rolly, for what you want to accomplish (creating a mirror image backup), you would just have GHOST do a Drive to Drive copy.  When it's done, both drives will be bootable and will be identical as far as the OS is concerned (remember, it's not a sector-by-sector copy, so it's not physically
> identical unless you told GHOST to work in forensic mode).
> > >
> > > Currently, there are several different "flavors" of GHOST.  The "Personal Edition" is for home use and is what you want to get.  If I remember correctly, you have Norton's SystemWorks - if it's the "Professional" version, then you have GHOST P.E. (it's part of the NSW Pro).  If not, then run
> down to the local BestBuy/CompUSA/what-have-you and pick up a copy.  The other GHOST flavors are for small business and enterprise customers.
> > >
> > > 73,
> > >
> > >   - Aaron, NN6O
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rolly (W7DGX) and Sandra Goodspeed [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:53 PM
> > > To: ham computer Reflector
> > > Subject: [Ham-Computers] Backup OS -- Thanks
> > >
> > > Backup OS on CD
> > >
> > > Thanks all for the response. So far the results are unanimous for Ghost.
> > >
> > > How does one transfer from one hard drive to the other. Can one be a
> > > master and the other a slave on the same hard drive interface?
> > >
> > > This program interests me. I shall look into it more. Sounds like
> > > exactly what I want.
> > >
> > > I had one hard drive fail. I bought another and tried to reload all my
> > > software. The major problem was getting the U.S. Robotics modem to
> > > install. Thanks to Aaron Hsu and his patience it was finally installed.
> > >
> > > The old hard drive was under warrantee, and was replaced. I now call it
> > > the new hard drive. Again, in spite of following rather detailed
> > > instructions that was used before, I cannot get the U.S. Robotics modem
> > > to install.
> > >
> > > So I have two hard drives that I would like to be identical. Since I
> > > cannot get the modem to install on the new hard drive, I was looking for
> > > an alternative method to get the complete system installed.
> > >
> > > My goal is to have the two drives be mirror images so if any drive
> > > failure occurs, I can recover faster. Hopefully the data on the other
> > > drive would only be a few days old.
> > >
> > > Again, thanks to all for your responses. Now does anybody know of a
> > > mirroring program?
> > >
> > >         Rolly W7DGX
> >
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