risky Ghost disc-to disc backup

[Wim Kamp]

Does anyone have a tip for me?

I want to make a weekly disc-to-disc backup of one disc to another disc (on
a Compaq server with Win2000 Server), which is the same size etc, therfore
100% identical to the source disk. After starting Ghost from the discette I
have a problem seeing which one is the disc with data, and which one is
empty. So, I am risking copiing the empty disc to the disc with data, and
that would mean quite a catastrophe. To guard myself from that I have made
image files of both partitions on the source disk, but is there a way of
identifiing the two discs?

I know, with Ghost 2003 you can start the backup in the Windows environment
seeing better what you are doing, but I sort of don't trust that method.
I'd rather do it the basic way, starting Ghost.exe from discette, but
perhaps I don't need to worry about using the windows interface??

Thanks for a tip about identifiing the discs.
Wim

 

[Geoffw]

name the hard drives ? though I have noticed that ghost only
sometimes can see the names.

after the backup go to the backup HD and create a file eg
AAAbackup so that when you do the copy to : that file is
obvious to you and so is the backup drive

messy but should work

Geoff

 

[David H. Lipman]

What version of Ghost. There are many versions.

What hard disk and what controller. If it is a server, is it SCSI ? Is it a RAID
controller ?

Please supply facts.

Dave




| Does anyone have a tip for me?
|
| I want to make a weekly disc-to-disc backup of one disc to another disc (on
| a Compaq server with Win2000 Server), which is the same size etc, therfore
| 100% identical to the source disk. After starting Ghost from the discette I
| have a problem seeing which one is the disc with data, and which one is
| empty. So, I am risking copiing the empty disc to the disc with data, and
| that would mean quite a catastrophe. To guard myself from that I have made
| image files of both partitions on the source disk, but is there a way of
| identifiing the two discs?
|
| I know, with Ghost 2003 you can start the backup in the Windows environment
| seeing better what you are doing, but I sort of don't trust that method.
| I'd rather do it the basic way, starting Ghost.exe from discette, but
| perhaps I don't need to worry about using the windows interface??
|
| Thanks for a tip about identifiing the discs.
| Wim
|
|