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I recently "rebuilt" my OS from scratch, putting it on a
smaller partition (20 GB) of a 60 GB disk so that I could
just clone a basic setup for future restore. This basic
setup takes all of about 2 GB of this partition (NTFS, of
course).
I used BootIt NG successfully for the the repartitioning.
However, when I attempted to do a backup image I finally
aborted the session when I got to the ninth disk. Nine
disks?! Why is only 2 GB of data taking up nine-plus disks?
Seems to me there should be a "data only" image option,
which with Ghost would only span about 3 disks. When I
contacted Terabyte about this, I couldn't get a straight
answer. Either there is or there isn't such an option!
Apparently Terabyte's tech support personnel don't even
know. Too bad, because everything else about the product
seems solid and reliable.
The comments I've read about BING elsewhere suggest that
making a data-only compressed image is possible, but I
haven't been able to figure this out from the docs.In any
event if it's going to take 30 disks to back up a
partition, then this is not a good option for imaging.
What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
smaller partition (20 GB) of a 60 GB disk so that I could
just clone a basic setup for future restore. This basic
setup takes all of about 2 GB of this partition (NTFS, of
course).
I used BootIt NG successfully for the the repartitioning.
However, when I attempted to do a backup image I finally
aborted the session when I got to the ninth disk. Nine
disks?! Why is only 2 GB of data taking up nine-plus disks?
Seems to me there should be a "data only" image option,
which with Ghost would only span about 3 disks. When I
contacted Terabyte about this, I couldn't get a straight
answer. Either there is or there isn't such an option!
Apparently Terabyte's tech support personnel don't even
know. Too bad, because everything else about the product
seems solid and reliable.
The comments I've read about BING elsewhere suggest that
making a data-only compressed image is possible, but I
haven't been able to figure this out from the docs.In any
event if it's going to take 30 disks to back up a
partition, then this is not a good option for imaging.
What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.