Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software
bchacc at san.rr.com
Mon Mar 21 12:51:51 CST 2005
Cool. I just got an 80GB external HD but it's USB and my current computer has USB1.0 which makes it slower than a stuck pig to write gigabytes to. The new box from Dell just arrived and I'm thinking it will have USB 2.0. So hopefully that will make fast enough to use as an archive drive. Rocky ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobby Heid" <bheid at appdevgrp.com> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:29 AM Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying > Rocky, > > It does not image the unused space. It allows you to have several (or > none) > levels of compression. > > My C drive currently takes up about 9GB out of a 35GB partition. My last > manual back up took about 5.7GB of disk space. > > Bobby > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin - > Beach Access Software > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 1:19 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying > > > Bobby: > > Does Ghost create an image the size of the source disk or just the size of > the occupied space. IOW, if I have 20MB of stuff on a 40MB disk will the > ghost image be 20 or 40MB? > > T&R > > Rocky > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bobby Heid" <bheid at appdevgrp.com> > To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:05 AM > Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying > > >> Andy, >> >> I used to use Acronis True Image until Ghost 9 came out. They both do >> about >> the same thing, but Ghost will allow you to keep X number of generations >> of >> backups and will then automatically delete the older generations as that >> limit is met. >> >> What I do is to Ghost my C Drive Sunday morning, then I have it make >> incremental backups every morning other than Sunday. I have it keep 2 >> generations for that. Every Wednesday evening, I make another full >> backup of my C: drive to a different HD from the above, but the >> difference is that every other week, I back that backup off to DVD. >> For the Wednesday backups, >> I keep 2 generations on the HD. For my "download files" drive, I have >> Ghost >> back it up once a month to another HD with incremental backups twice a >> week. >> This I also let keep 2 generations (at least for now). I back off this >> drive's backups about once every 2-3 months (10 or so DVDs). >> >> Another utility I use is Karen's Power Tools Replicator. This allows >> you >> to >> keep a folder (including subs if you want) that stays in synch with >> another >> folder. It can (and this is the way I have it set up) keep a daily >> backup >> of a given folder for every day of the week. At the beginning of the >> next >> week, it starts over again. It can mirror deletions. I have 4-5 jobs >> running under this: source code, wife's business docs, family docs, >> email, >> etc. So at any time, I can easily get back to the prior 7 days worth of >> data for these particular documents. >> >> As for problems with Ghost, I have not had any. Been using it for >> about 4 months now. >> >> Bobby >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey >> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:29 AM >> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >> Subject: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying >> >> >> Afternoon folks >> >> Ok so I decided to beef up my backup capability (been using Disk2Disk >> to backup essentials to CD), get a second HD, a USB 2.0 caddy for it >> and backup my entire disk to that. Was going to get Ghost 9 to do it >> but then read some >> horrendous reviews of the product which aside from many and various >> problems >> agreed on only one thing - if you need tech support forget it. So I >> thought >> I'd better canvas opinion among the best-informed set of people I know - >> yes >> folks it's you. So who can recommend the greatest, most reliable, easiest >> to >> setup, easiest to use disk imaging software? One requirement I'd have >> would >> be to schedule overnight backups and not to have to come out of Windows >> to >> do it. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> -- >> Andy Lacey >> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk >> >> PS If we've had this before I apologise but I couldn't find anything >> in >> the >> archives. >> >> ________________________________________________ >> Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >