Norton Ghost

[STAN1ZX]

Hello All,
I am using an external 120Gb HD to backup a 120Gb internal HD using Norton
Ghost via USB.
1] After Ghost goes into DOS, it takes 11+ hours to run and another 11+
hours to verify the backup.
2] After the backup has completed successfully, I can't seem to get the
Ghost Explorer to read the backup HD or to find any file, am I missing
something ? Is there a better way to save the internal HD ?
Thanks for your help
Stan

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[John Thomas Smith]

Hello All,
I am using an external 120Gb HD to backup a 120Gb internal HD using Norton
Ghost via USB.
1] After Ghost goes into DOS, it takes 11+ hours to run and another 11+
hours to verify the backup.
2] After the backup has completed successfully, I can't seem to get the
Ghost Explorer to read the backup HD or to find any file, am I missing
something ? Is there a better way to save the internal HD ?
Thanks for your help
Stan

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[Bob Harris]

Are you really trying to backing up all of the 120 Gig, or just the files,
might be a lot less than the full 120 Gig?

GHOST has a couple of options that can speedup or slowdown things, depending
on how they are set. A default backup saves only files, not free space.
GHOST can only do this if it understands the file system (e.g., FAT32, NTFS,
maybe LINUX). Special options include saving the whole drive, bit-by-bit,
and level of compresion. I have had good luck with saving a
"partition-to-image" instead of "disk-to-image". If you have multiple
partitions they can be saved as separate GHOST images.

As for compression, if you have a fast CPU and a slow pipe (e.g., USB 1.1),
then by all means compress, a lot. However, if you have a better balance
between CPU speed and the pipe (e.g., USB 2.0 or firewire), then do not
compress, unless you are tight for space on the destination drive. Even
medium compression can slow the copy by 3X.

My own experience with GHOST on smaller paritions is about 10 minutes for 5
Gig, from one SATA/150 internal drive to another SATA/150 internal drive,
with medium compress (2.5 MhZ CPU, 533 MHz buss). Writing to an external
disk (USB 2.0 or firewire) is slower, but no more than a factor of two
relative to the internal disks I have.

I find Acronis TrueImage to be frendlier than GHOST, with better support for
external drives, and a more windows-like interface. However, in fairness to
GHOST, I would not rate it subsantially faster.