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Bojangles <jzurb@charter.net> wrote:
: Ghost does the same as true image I guess. Ghost doesn't clone it images
: the drive. It too spans it in 4.5 gig sections so the increments fit onto
: a dvd if you wish.
I imagine that Ghost, like True Image, can both clone and image
drives. Cloning is faster if your are just trying to upgrade to a new
hard drive - there is only one copy process instead of creating an
image file then copying the image to a new drive.
Andrew
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: > Falco <johnyfalco@bigfoot.com> wrote:
: > : In my desktop PC I have a spare Hard drive that I connect up
: (internally)
: > : and boot from a floppy and ghost my main hard drive. This way if I ever
: have
: > : any problems I just install the backup drive as master drive and boot
: from
: > : that. It has to be the easiest back up solution around.
: > : I now have a new laptop and was wondering the easiest way to do the same
: > : thing with this.
: > : As the laptop doesn't have a floppy I don't know how you could boot from
: a
: > : ghost boot disk (can you boot from a CD with GHOST)
: > : Also you cant exactly upon up the case on a laptop and connect up
: another
: > : drive so any suggestions on backup media
: >
: > I use external hard drives to backup - actually, I use USB enclosures
: > and put my own drives in them to make external hard drives. I use
: > Acronis True Image, which is another company's version of Ghost. True
: > Image as well as the the latest versions of Ghost have the ability not
: > just to clone a hard drive but to make an image of it as file(s)
: > on some other hard drive. True Image (and probably Ghost) allows you
: > to make a rescue CD if you have a CD burner. If your main drive dies
: > you can restore to another drive in several ways. You can first of
: > all boot from the rescue CD, which has drivers for USB drives. I can
: > then restore the image I made wherever it exists, either on my
: > external hard drive or even a DVD.
: >
: > Imaging is more flexible than cloning for several reasons. For one,
: > you can make incremental backups. True Image will add to an existing
: > image only the files that have changed since my last backup - makes
: > backups much quicker. Also, you can split an image into multiple
: > files of small size i.e. 4500MB or about the size of a DVD, so you could
: > backup to two or three DVDs if your drive image is that small.
: > Acronis also does some compression when it makes an image (your choice
: > as to how much), so a drive with 20GB on it might be compressed down
: > to three files of 4500MB or less that fit on three DVDs. And of
: > course you can make multiple backups that way instead of having a
: > single backup on one hard drive.
: >
: > Images are also cool because you can mount one as a virtual hard
: > drive. Say you made a backup you want to get files of off later.
: > True Image will mount the image as another drive letter so you can
: > look at/copy individual files on it. Very handy.
: >
: > As far as enclosures go, there are different sizes. You can get a
: > 2.5" enclosure for laptop drives or a 3.5" enclosure for desktop
: > drives. I have 3.5" desktop enclosures, and I have an adaptor
: > for a 2.5" laptop hard drive, so I can use desktop or laptop
: > hard drives that way. If say your current laptop dies but the hard
: > drive is still good, you could extract the hard drive into an
: > enclosure and read your files from it with another computer.
: >
: > Andrew
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