[Ham-Computers] RE: System Startup Question.

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Speaking of Ghost, I run it on our main machine here set to do backups every 
12 hours, two full's a week and incrementals at the other points.  We also use 
PC Tools' SpyWare Doctor.  If SD is running, Ghost does the backups fine.  
But Ghost (the foreground program where you set up backups, etc.) won't start if 
SD is running.  

I learned this the hard way.  I wanted to temporarily restore some file to 
check something but couldn't get Ghost to come up.  After figuring out the file 
problem in another way, I uninstalled and reinstalled Ghost, and of course had 
to set up the backups again but missed one step.  And while doing the install 
and setup I had turned off SD.  Six or seven days later one of the backup 
drives ran out of drive space and when I remembered the missed step, couldn't get 
Ghost to come up again.  Had a random access inspiration, killed SD, and 
Ghost came up fine.

In a message dated 4/19/2007 1:01:47 PM Central Standard Time, 
aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com writes: 
> There are other programs out there that have similiar functionality (such 
> as "Go Back"), but I've never used them, so I can't comment.  An imaging 
> program, such as GHOST, is the only way I know of to truly restore your system 
> back to *exactly* the way it was when it was backed up - well, not quite exactly 
> as the files are not in the same physical location on the drive, but 
> operationally the same (BTW, GHOST also supports sector-by-sector backups, if you 
> want to be *that* exact).

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