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| 128226 | 2003-03-15 03:02:00 | If you need any more help or advice feel free to contact me | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 128227 | 2003-03-16 01:07:00 | Thanks to both of you, kiwibeat and Billy T. Sorry for the belated acknowledgement - have been busy on other things. I have copied and printed your exhaustive post Billy just in case it gets lost. My second drive is quite small, and it has been around for a while in both a Mac and this PC (boy, thinking about that dates it, because I haven't had a Mac for several years now). It needs to be replaced, so I will do the set up when that happens, rather than doing it twice. Thanks again, and thanks kiwibeat for the offer of additional contact. I do appreciate the support that is available on this forum. John |
John H (8) | ||
| 128228 | 2003-03-16 01:43:00 | >Do you have any idea about the compression ratio? My current hard drive contents are approx 7Gb. There is plenty of room on the other network drive to copy that without compression, but I would be interested in some idea of how big the image of 7Gb would be. You can check out the compression ratios available here at Symantec support (service1.symantec.com) You can pick and choose partitions or drives to create images from, but I don't think you can select directories from within them. If you only wanted to back up certain directories you will need different software. With Ghost explorer, you can browse your saved images and restore individual files if you wanted to in cases of accidental deletion of important data. Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 128229 | 2003-03-16 02:49:00 | Hi John I see that Jen came through for you with some compression info. I didn't know that Symantec had posted that, but it looks like your 7 GB will come down to about 4.3GB at high compression. I had previously tried level 9 compression but it seemed to make little difference except to the time taken to compress or extract the image. I now know why! It offers barely 1 or 2 percent greater reduction in file size than the standard "high" option. Jen, if you read this, I was talking about exclusion of directories, not selective imaging, however I have now RTFM properly and find that directories can indeed be skipped. Refer to P163 in the PDF manual for details. To skip multiple directories or file types you have to prepare a skip file but that is a fairly basic procedure. This is a good way to speed up your ghost imaging by confining it to those directories that change regularly. I will look further and see if it is possible to specify certain directories only, rather than excluding those that are not wanted, though this seems less likely. Cheers Billy 8-{) :) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 128230 | 2003-03-16 02:59:00 | D'oh So much for RTFM properly :8} I overlooked the fact the the skip command only works on FAT partitions. Makes no odds to me because I don't like or use NTFS, but it could cause others to think twice. Now, where did I read about Ghost converting NTFS to FAT while imaging? Watch this space :D Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 128231 | 2003-03-16 04:06:00 | >Jen, if you read this, I was talking about exclusion of directories, not selective imaging, however I have now RTFM properly and find that directories can indeed be skipped. Refer to P163 in the PDF manual for details. To skip multiple directories or file types you have to prepare a skip file but that is a fairly basic procedure. Ah ha - I see what you mean now :-). That would of been handy on my WinME machine, but alas, my WinXP machine has NTFS. The PDF version of the manual is certainly engrossing - learn new tricks every day. :-) Cheers Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
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