Hi,

I have recently installed Ghost 9 on my 120GB hard disk with 50 GB of
used space on it and much to my regret have found that backing it up on
a second 40GB drive is impossible since the created image file is
bigger than the source data. In other words the destination drive must
be larger (or at least equal in size) with the source drive.

Is there any application in which I can use my 40GB drive to backup say
60-70GB from my source drive?

Thanks,
Josh

Josh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed Ghost 9 on my 120GB hard disk with 50 GB of
> used space on it and much to my regret have found that backing it up
on
> a second 40GB drive is impossible since the created image file is
> bigger than the source data. In other words the destination drive
must
> be larger (or at least equal in size) with the source drive.
>
> Is there any application in which I can use my 40GB drive to backup
say
> 60-70GB from my source drive?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh

MP3,Videos?

No.

Text Files and other highly compressable Files?
yes,build in Windows Backup

Josh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed Ghost 9 on my 120GB hard disk with 50 GB of
> used space on it and much to my regret have found that backing it up on
> a second 40GB drive is impossible since the created image file is
> bigger than the source data. In other words the destination drive must
> be larger (or at least equal in size) with the source drive.

50 GB should compress enough to fit on a 40GB drive. You are using
compression, right?


> Is there any application in which I can use my 40GB drive to backup say
> 60-70GB from my source drive?

Well which is it... 50 or 60-70GB?


--
-WD

That depends on how compressible your data is.

"Josh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed Ghost 9 on my 120GB hard disk with 50 GB of
> used space on it and much to my regret have found that backing it up on
> a second 40GB drive is impossible since the created image file is
> bigger than the source data. In other words the destination drive must
> be larger (or at least equal in size) with the source drive.
>
> Is there any application in which I can use my 40GB drive to backup say
> 60-70GB from my source drive?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I have recently installed Ghost 9 on my 120GB hard disk with 50 GB of
>used space on it and much to my regret have found that backing it up on
>a second 40GB drive is impossible since the created image file is
>bigger than the source data. In other words the destination drive must
>be larger (or at least equal in size) with the source drive.
>
>Is there any application in which I can use my 40GB drive to backup say
>60-70GB from my source drive?


I have not used Ghost 9, but I use Ghost 2003, and it's maximum
compression makes an image file about half the size of the source data.
That source is from a typical Windows installation partition. But if
all the files were already compressed (zip, jpg, etc), then probably it
couldnt reduce it further.