Bobby Heid
bheid at appdevgrp.com
Mon Mar 21 13:56:56 CST 2005
About 4.6GB/DVD. I have Ghost create 700MB files which is about the size of a CD. SO each DVD holds about 6 CDs worth of data. 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 2:48 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [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. > > > > ________________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com