About to use Norton Ghost

[Boleti]

My backup device is a 40GB USB drive, and my hard drive holds 250GB.
However, I have very little on my hard drive right now, and wish to back up
using Norton Ghost. May I assume that Ghost can take, say, up to 35GB from
the hard drive and image it to my USB drive? Just being *extra* cautious
here!

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

When you find out from Norton's could you also let me know. I have Norton's
Ghost 10 and my only option is to back up to DVD.
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/home_homeoffice/

 

[Dave B]

How much data is on the 250GB drive? Ghost can back up significantly more
than 40GB to the 40GB drive using compression.

 

[JS]

Ghost has an option to choose compression ratios, while I have not used the
highest level of compression you can expect that 35GB should compress into a
Ghost backup file of about 17GB. As for USB support that a question I can't
answer.

Jim

 

[Anna]

My backup device is a 40GB USB drive, and my hard drive holds 250GB.
However, I have very little on my hard drive right now, and wish to back
up
using Norton Ghost. May I assume that Ghost can take, say, up to 35GB from
the hard drive and image it to my USB drive? Just being *extra* cautious
here!

Thanks.

Boleti:
You shouldn't have a problem here. The size of your source HD is of no
import - what *is* important is the size of the data you will be copying
("cloning"). As long as the size of that data does not exceed the size of
your destination HD, there should be no problem.
Anna

 

[Dave B]

As I stated, the size of the data to be backed up CAN exceed the size of the
back up drive as long as compression is used.