Backup Strategy Needed

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Bob Badger

I need to backup the partition with my OS (XP) and be able to recover
from a system crash (not being able to get back into windows to restore
using the XP utils). Can I do this using Ghost? or does this wipe all
the paritions?

I have a choice of boot dvd and or portable hard drives to hold the
backup data, so I am more interested in the best staregies for being to
get my machines up and running when they stop working.

Thanks
Steffan
 
Ghost backups partitions or disks as selected in the start menu.
Watch out when restoring partitions, do restore to PARTITION, not to DISK
as this would wipe the other partitions.

John7
 
Yes ghost will work but if you have a ghost boot disk you can write the hard
drive to a image on a dvd or cd's. I use a program called Heirens Boot CD to
boot to a dos prompt and then use ghost and burn a image of my hd to a dvd
disk it is a 20 gig disk that ihave about 5 gig in programs that compress to
3.5 gig on a 4 gig dvd. And i do this about every 3 months ( I do allot of
tweeks and test programs.
 
Yes ghost will work but if you have a ghost boot disk you can write the hard
drive to a image on a dvd or cd's. I use a program called Heirens Boot CD to
boot to a dos prompt and then use ghost and burn a image of my hd to a dvd
disk it is a 20 gig disk that ihave about 5 gig in programs that compress to
3.5 gig on a 4 gig dvd. And i do this about every 3 months ( I do allot of
tweeks and test programs.
Click to expand...

Can you tell me the version of Ghost you use and what is needed to get
it start in DOS? I have Ghost 2003.
I am only familiar with 'old ghost' that I have used for years via
floppy disk.

This is a great topic for me.

Currently I do a number of lousy alternatives for backup--even some
of them online! Iomega Peerless used to be a good option. Now, I just
backup to other internal and external hard drives as my files are not
going to fir on a CD and I would not trust them if they did.

Purchased Stomps version of Backup Exec along with others like Back
Rex's Expert Backup, which, by the way, does a good job but will not
allow additional directories to be added to the list.
I usually resort to a manual copy and paste--no compression at all.
I also still have Backup Exec pro which is pretty good-of course when
I needed to restore a lost backup drive, there was an error
creating/reading the index, so the backup was worthless.

Steffan, as far as the best strategy for recovering from a
failure--say Hard Drive--would, in my opinion, be to just install a
fresh copy of Windows on a new drive--two hours or less and it is
working. Sometimes I have made clones of Windows Hard Drive(boot) and
left the extra one in the machine--just in case. Worked for them and
for me.Come to think of it, with the reduced cost of hardware now, it
almost makes sense rather than go through the time it takes to get
Windows reloaded.

Maybe if I knew Ghost better, it would be the best alternative. I hope
to learn something here and improve my strategy too. Katrina made me
and some of my customers understand what purposes backups are for.


Sorry for the rant.

Joe
Thankfully ACT and QB provide backup within their software.
 
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