Any Norton Ghost 'experts' out there?

[daveleau]

I just got Norton Ghost. I have backed up my system after starting from scratch. I saved the images to my D drive (I have 2 HDDS partitioned into 3 parts- C: primary 4.6GB, D: primary 13.0 GB and E: extended from C 15.4GB) and was curios if there is any difference in restoring from an image that is not compressed v/s fast compression v/s high compression.

I ran Ghost in all three modes and got images varying in size : 671 MB, 431 MB, & 356 MB correlating to compression mode. Of course the high compression would work best for burning cds but I have always thought of compressing things as taboo. Is this something I should worry about?

Thanks-dave

[Nathan]

I'm not an expert, but I use it nearly everyday.

Compression is mainly to save disk space. If you can get by without it, I wouldn't compress. The reason being is you might not get some files to decompress. But if you are saving it to a CD, then you may need to because the CD only holds 650 MB right?

[buitenb]

ith norton ghost running over networks then
comression is good faster speed over the network.
there is a option to make a image in 650 mb diskspans so you can use 2 or more cds to
save the image but first have enough space before you make the image because you can write directly to cd with ghost .

[Nathan]

What version is that in buitenb? I wasn't aware of the feature.

[daveleau]

I didn't see that either. I am using Personal Edition. I'd love to have that option.

Also, is the fast compression any better at avoid the problem with uncompression?

[This message has been edited by daveleau (edited 10-27-1999).]

[BBA]

I use 5.1 multiple times a day at work over networks and from CD's and I never knew of that spanning feature.

Do tell!

BBA

[buitenb]

here boys look ! http://www.betuwe.net/~buitenb/ghostfaq.txt

ijust uploaded it i have version 5.1 c
profesional

[buitenb]

he guys i also uploaded the manual in pdf format (Adobe acrobat)so download it from
http://www.betuwe.net/~buitenb/v5manual.pdf
and here is the file of the startup switches
and look at the SPLIT feature ! http://www.betuwe.net/~~buitenb/switches.txt

and look also at: http://www.betuwe.net/~buitenb/
for my little homepage !!!

i have patched my demo he he he

[buitenb]

oeps the switches link is no good !!

here is the good one !
http://www.betuwe.net/~buitenb/switches.txt
i hope this will hel you all with the
clone champ !!!!

jakob buitenhuis
the netherlands

[buitenb]

about compression just use high compression
then you get smaller files and the cpu is fast enought to do it so when you use a
4 or 8 speed cd rom drive the image will
be faster on the hd and its safe enough
just after burning the image(s) on cd check the cd s with cdrom analyzer when that is good delete the ghost images that the way i do it i have two systems and works real good
even with netbios !!

[daveleau]

Does the spanning option in 'options' automatically split images into ~650 MB images? I haven't got enough to back up to try it yet. If it does-Great!, if not I need to limit what I decide to backup in the future. Thanks for that great info Buitenb

[buitenb]

nope the switch to use is:
split=650 for cdr
split=100 for zip
split=250 for zip plus
split=1000 for jazz and so on !
i have also powerquest frive image pro newest version but ghost is easier and better !

[daveleau]

I guess I'll have to read up in the manual about switches. I won't ask you to explain it all since I have printed out the manual, but do you have to work in DOS to use switches? I am not really too familiar with DOS. Thanks a bunch!

[buitenb]

ghost is a dos program and you have to use
the switch at startup .

jakob buitenhuis