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Re: Nortons Ghost 10 Live Update problems
Reply #30 - May 26th, 2007 at 9:26pm
 
John. wrote on May 26th, 2007 at 8:28pm:
Maybe Brian knows what's going on.  I'm not sure but:

(You could still do an emergency restore using them, but they're not known I don't think)

Personally, I would delete everything in E:\Ghost Points\ folder and create a new definition from scratch.

Also, start/run/cmd and then chkdsk e: /f to run chkdsk on e:

Any other ideas or suggestions Brian?


Hi and thanks for your post.

I did the chkdsk on E\ drive and the following is the result:

156288320 totao disk space
109008336KB in 256 files
144KB in 32 indexes
0 KB in bad sectors
71783KB in use by system
65536Kb occupied by logfile
4728056 available on disk
4096bytes in each allocation disk
39072080 total allocation units on disk
11802014 allocation units available on disk

In E\Ghost points folder there are 190 objects, one of which is a Symantec Recovery disk file.  Others are image files 11/5/2007 - 25/5/2007.

Is "Emergency restore" the same as Emergency recover that is shown in the Ghost 10 Manual for me to follow please?

"Creating a new definition from scratch" - That is not in my manual, is there another term for it please? if not how do I do it? There is the following in the index, could it be the same? "Creating recovery points specifying default storage location"

I am sorry for so many questions, but I am not knowledged other than following the Ghost Manual or yourself up to this point.

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Re: Nortons Ghost 10 Live Update problems
Reply #31 - May 26th, 2007 at 9:37pm
 
Yes, "Emergency restore" is same as "Emergency Recovery CD".  Sorry.

In chapter 5, page 49 of Ghost 10 manual, look at "defining a new backup".  You could create a new folder on e: called "Ghost10backups" and then use that folder for your new backup definition.
 

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Re: Nortons Ghost 10 Live Update problems
Reply #32 - May 26th, 2007 at 9:39pm
 
4728056 available on disk

As I read this, you only have 4.7 gigabytes available.  Is that correct?
 

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Reply #33 - May 26th, 2007 at 9:54pm
 
John. wrote on May 26th, 2007 at 9:37pm:
Yes, "Emergency restore" is same as "Emergency Recovery CD".  Sorry.

In chapter 5, page 49 of Ghost 10 manual, look at "defining a new backup".  You could create a new folder on e: called "Ghost10backups" and then use that folder for your new backup definition.


One other thought I could restore my system back before I uninstalled Ghost, that way I could pick up the cataloge missing and then uninstall and reinstall over again?

Bye the way, out Manuals are different as my "Define a new backup" is in Chapter 5 but on page 34!  Many thanks however.

Defining a new backup does not work for me as it goes through the motions and then tells me at the end of it after about 57 minutes that "there is not enough disk space to complete the backup."

I guess you mean delete all those Ghost points (103GB) in E\drive first, will that free up more space?

Also, I only need 25MB for a complete image backup as it is sitting on my desktop in a folder as the Independent backup image done before the ghost uninstall and reinstall.


 

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Reply #34 - May 26th, 2007 at 10:02pm
 
John. wrote on May 26th, 2007 at 9:39pm:
4728056 available on disk

As I read this, you only have 4.7 gigabytes available.  Is that correct?


Sorry I missed this post in the flurry of prompt service offered by you Ghost4me

I guess so if that is what it say's, but I will check again.

Free space on disk is 48.341.045.248 bytes

How do I free it up I have tried everything?
 

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Reply #35 - May 26th, 2007 at 10:02pm
 
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One other thought I could restore my system back before I uninstalled Ghost, that way I could pick up the cataloge missing and then uninstall and reinstall over again?  

I seriously doubt that would work.  You don't really need to catalog; you can manually select a backup to restore.

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Defining a new backup does not work for me as it goes through the motions and then tells me at the end of it after about 57 minutes that "there is not enough disk space to complete the backup."

Because you have only 5.7 gb left on your drive from the way I read the chkdsk.

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I guess you mean delete all those Ghost points (103GB) in E\drive first, will that free up more space?

Yes, delete the ones you don't need.  Look at the dates of them and save the backups you need, such as the most current one.

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Also, I only need 25MB for a complete image backup as it is sitting on my desktop in a folder as the Independent backup image done before the ghost uninstall and reinstall.  

I'm sure you meant 25GB not 25MB,  right?
 

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Reply #36 - May 26th, 2007 at 10:11pm
 

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Defining a new backup does not work for me as it goes through the motions and then tells me at the end of it after about 57 minutes that "there is not enough disk space to complete the backup."

Because you have only 5.7 gb left on your drive from the way I read the chkdsk.

That is correct the way you read that chkdsk

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I guess you mean delete all those Ghost points (103GB) in E\drive first, will that free up more space?

Yes, delete the ones you don't need.  Look at the dates of them and save the backups you need, such as the most current one.

How many would you suggest I keep please?

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Also, I only need 25MB for a complete image backup as it is sitting on my desktop in a folder as the Independent backup image done before the ghost uninstall and reinstall.  

I'm sure you meant 25GB not 25MB,  right?

Yes of course I did mean 25GB.....sorry


 

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Re: Nortons Ghost 10 Live Update problems
Reply #37 - May 26th, 2007 at 10:21pm
 

*.v2i are the full backups (should be large file size)
*.iv2i are the incremental backups (should be small file size)

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How many would you suggest I keep please?


At least one full backup (that would be one called C_Drive0xx.v2i where xx is the sequence number).

You would have to look at the list using Windows Explorer, sorted by date and decide how many you want to keep, whether you want the oldest one or the most recent one etc.

Then delete the ones you don't need.
 

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Reply #38 - May 26th, 2007 at 11:04pm
 
John. wrote on May 26th, 2007 at 10:21pm:
*.v2i are the full backups (should be large file size)
*.iv2i are the incremental backups (should be small file size)


Every file in the folder that is left (I have been deleting since your second last post) is a *.iv2i.  I still have left in the Ghost points folder 76GB and 68 objects (16th May - 26th May)  So I will need to highlight each one which immediately tells me how large it is (some are very big  90-385MB)  So I will just pick about 6 of the biggest I think with one mid May and the others late May.

How does that sound, but seems they are all *.iv2i



 

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Reply #39 - May 26th, 2007 at 11:14pm
 
I would have thought you should have at least one full backup.

If you change Windows Explorer to View/Details you should see all 68 listed with details of size.  I would think several should be 10-15 gigabytes in size.

I am surprised you have 68 objects from just 10 days (16th to 26th of May).  That's another good reason to create a new backup definition and schedule it once a day or manually.

Delete what you don't need or want.  You need to have room on the E: for 50 or 60 gigabytes free space minimum.

Then, define new backup, and run it.

 

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Reply #40 - May 26th, 2007 at 11:29pm
 
John. wrote on May 26th, 2007 at 11:14pm:
I would have thought you should have at least one full backup.

No, no full backup

I have finished deleting and made a new backup folder.  Am about to reboot and then define a new backup.

I am surprised you have 68 objects from just 10 days (16th to 26th of May).  That's another good reason to create a new backup definition and schedule it once a day or manually.

Yes will do the above, too many incremental backups were optioned before so I agree once a day is plenty

Then, define new backup, and run it.

Hope it all works, will get back with good news I hope.  thanks for your help to this stage.


 

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Reply #41 - May 27th, 2007 at 1:54am
 
Smiley Just finished a complete 51 GB backup successfully. I have verified it, and set to run once a week with daily incremental backups.

I found while waiting for the update to finish - on the defragmentation log I sent you that there were two complete recovery points *.v21, one 46GB and the other 29GB. I obviously deleted them from Ghost points folder with innocence I have to say.  All the other files in that defragmentation print out were *.iv21  Never mind all is well now I hope.

Can I now delete that Independent backup image I saved to my desktop before uninstalling and reinstalling Ghost 10.  It is 25GB and of course was also included in the just finished 51GB complete image backup.

I have learned so much from all this, best way of course is to do it yourself with guidance.

Thank you so much again for all your tuition.

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C:\Documents and Settings\User>chkdsk e: /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Ghost Drive.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.

156288320 KB total disk space.
 61431496 KB in 107 files.
      152 KB in 29 indexes.
        0 KB in bad sectors.
    71784 KB in use by the system.
    65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 94784888 KB available on disk.

     4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
 39072080 total allocation units on disk.
 23696222 allocation units available on disk.



 

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Reply #42 - May 27th, 2007 at 5:44am
 
tallin wrote on May 27th, 2007 at 1:54am:
Just finished a complete 51 GB backup successfully. I have verified it, and set to run once a week with daily incremental backups.


Great!  Success and glad it is working again.

I thought Ghost 10 decides when it needs to take full vs. incremental backups (I don't use that feature myself; I just take independent backups).

Brian is the incremental expert.  Any help or advice Brian?
 

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Reply #43 - May 27th, 2007 at 3:37pm
 
My baseline recovery point is only 4 GB as I don't store data files in the C: drive. So I create a baseline recovery point weekly and incrementals daily. All scheduled. I don't set Ghost to limit the number of backups, I delete backups older than 3 to 4 weeks. This is done from Windows Explorer and I ignore the Ghost catalog as I found it too confusing.
 
 
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Reply #44 - May 27th, 2007 at 3:57pm
 
Brian, my question (and I know it has come up before) is whether you get to choose whether Ghost will take a baseline recovery or incremental recovery point each time?  As I remember, you don't have that option; you just tell Ghost to backup (or more specifically to run a specific backup job) and then Ghost decides whether it is going to take a full or incremental.

So how do you "create a baseline recovery point weekly and incrementals daily"?
 

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