[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.
>
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