How to backup a 120GB source drive with 50GB on it to a 40GB backup drive

[Josh]

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

 

[Sayso Takewashi]

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

 

[Will Dormann]

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?

 

[Peter]

That depends on how compressible your data is.

 

[Wayne Fulton]

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.