[dba-Tech] Drive Copying

And when you say you back that to DVD, what's the capacity of a DVD?

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
> Sent: 21 March 2005 18:30
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> 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.
> >
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