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Multiple Backups on same HDD (Read 80549 times)
Evereti
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Multiple Backups on same HDD
Oct 30
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, 2006 at 10:17pm
Hi
I am a big fan/user of Ghost 2003 using internal and external (Iomega USB) Cd and DVD burners.....all excellent, no problems. Saved my life twice now....!
Is it possible to create a series of backups on one HDD......father, grandfather, you know...! Delete the oldest after a new one etc. AND still use the drive for other stuff
I tried this once with a USB external enclosure, managed one backup but Ghost would not use the drive once other stuff was on there. Is this just a function of the dodgy USB bridge and it will be OK if I have a totally internal HDD??
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Re: Multiple Backups on same HDD
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Oct 30
th
, 2006 at 10:32pm
Evereti wrote
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"... Is it possible to create a series of backups on one HDD..."
My preferred approach is to have
both
an internal physical (as opposed to logical) MASTER HDD and an internal physical SLAVE HDD -
PLUS
an external HDD of some sort. I employ a fixed set of alternating titles (such as odd/even, hot/cold, black/white, positive/negative) in maintaining constantly-progressing
"disk-to-image"
legacy Norton Ghost Backup images. As a failsafe measure, I use Norton Utilities WipeInfo to obliterate the trailing *.ghs segments beforehand because misdated segments with like names have survived the overwriting process on occasion.
As time has gone by, I have become increasingly dubious about using optical drives for system backup purposes.
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Oct 30
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, 2006 at 10:45pm
Hi EP
Understand your preference for magnetic rather than optical but I seem to have been OK so far, its just that my systems are getting a wee bit big for lots of disks, hence my question about multiple copies and sharing with other apps on one "slave" internal hdd.
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Evereti, it is not an “either/or” situation. You could, for example, choose to keep a set of backup images on an internal hard disk drive, and also choose to burn all (or some) of them to DVD discs.
That is basically the approach I have adopted. I use Ghost 10 to automatically maintain the most recent set of six weekly independent recovery points (aka “images”) on an internal slave hard disk drive, but about every two weeks I burn a recovery point to DVD media (using RecordNow) which I then retain for about six months. In this way, a good history of the PC is maintained. You ought to be able to do the same with Ghost 2003, if you wish, although with more manual effort.
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, 2006 at 6:52pm
Hi Pleo
Thanks for that, do you have other files on the slave drive? ie will Ghost 10 share a drive? If I had a large (320gb) slave, it would seem a shame to only use it for Ghost....
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, 2006 at 9:56am
Evereti, yes – Ghost 10 will happily “share” a drive. As a default storage location, I use “G:\Ghost” where “G” is the secondary (slave) hard disk drive. I use the same drive to also hold other non-Ghost files, too.
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Nov 1
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, 2006 at 2:12pm
Thanks Pleonasm
I'll give it a try with NG2003.
My next challenge will be to backup to the same slave drive from my other 2 PCs on my wee network.
Even if I had BartPE, I suspect that NG 2003 will not work as it drops to DOS and would lose sight of the network...?? Might have to go to windows Ghost....
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, 2006 at 2:33pm
Evereti wrote
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"... Even if I had BartPE, I suspect that NG 2003 will not work as it drops to DOS and would lose sight of the network..."
Compile a BartPE with Norton Ghost Ver 8.2; for all practical purpose, it is Norton Ghost 2003 that runs in a Windows Preinstalled Environment but independent of DOS. All necessary drivers are incorporated during initial construction from what I gather.
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, 2006 at 2:44pm
Evereti, the following threads will help you with the network issue:
http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=11207...
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http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=11367...
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, 2006 at 6:19pm
Thanks lads
Now I wait for Santa for an extra disk, maybe Ghost 10 and I will get into the networking side.
It appears that Ghost 10 has gone some way to making the "non-corp" version back-up across LAN but with some wrinkles.....but then we all have them. Maybe Ghost 11.0 will come out and be really easy for not so techo like me.
As an aside, I have found that the ultimate get out of jail combo is a Ghost 2003 boot floppy and my Iomega USB CD RW. I once had a HDD fail, and the Ghost boot CD would not recognise the internal CD RW, but somehow the Iomega got connected even though it had never been plugged into this m/c before. Ain't technology wonderful.
PS. If Brian reads this...hello to Lennox Heads from Noosa.
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Nov 2
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, 2006 at 6:57pm
Evereti,
Hi. You live in a beautiful part of Australia too.
Ask Santa to get you Ghost 9. You can create images across a network. Even a wireless network. The big advantage of Ghost 9 over Ghost 10 and S & R (Ghost 11) is that you can create a plugin to use in ReatogoXPE. This allows WinXP type networking which is a vast improvement over Symantec networking. You can't do wireless networking from the ReatogoXPE CD. WPA is not supported but I've heard WEP does work. I'm set up for WPA2 so I didn't bother trying WEP. Wired networking is easy from ReatogoXPE.
http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=11192...
http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=11192...
You would only use the ReatogoXPE CD for restoring across a network but it does work for image creation too.
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Re: Multiple Backups on same HDD
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Nov 3
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, 2006 at 1:37am
Hi Brian
I have made a BartPE CD, no troubles. Haven't got into ReatogoXPE yet......Are they different, do they work together?
Cheers ???
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Nov 3
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Evereti wrote
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I have made a BartPE CD, no troubles.
Then you will have no trouble making a ReatogoXPE CD.
ReatogoXPE is based on BartPE but it contains the XPE plugin which makes it look like WinXP. After using ReatogoXPE, you wouldn't go back.
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Nov 3
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, 2006 at 1:50am
Thanks Brian
Downloading the exe now.
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You should be able to just copy your completed plugins from BartPE to the ReatogoXPE 'Plugin' folder.
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