Hello

I've created an image (with 2003) of a computer that resulted in 3 Ghost files. 2 files around 2 GB and 1 file around 1,5 GB.

I'm wondering if it would be "enough" just to make a bootable DVD with ghost.exe with the 2 files of 2 GB and then start the Ghost installation with this and then place the last file on DVD for it self.

Would it require the last DVD to have ghost.exe on it also? Or does ghost.exe load in memory somewhere to the installation can continue when I insert the last DVD when Ghost ask for the last file?

Jimmy

je79ayps wrote on Jul 1^st, 2008 at 6:26am:


I've said this every way that I can think of and the answer is always the same.  Ghost knows exactly what it has done and where it's done it.
(unlike many of us).  
If it makes a backup to DVD's, for instance, you cannot move those files to a hard drive and expect Ghost to still use them. It won't.
It knows the difference.  
If you're making the Ghost backup from a floppy disk to a DVD, Ghost will offer to put an image of the floppy on the first DVD of the backup set. NOT on subsequent disks.

It won't even offer to do that when you're backing up to a hard drive.

Leave the files exactly where Ghost puts them.
You can also tell Ghost with a command line option, that you want it to split the backup into 4.7gig files to fit snugly on DVD's.

I believe that Ghost 8.3 and Ghost 11 will do this by default.

Good Luck,

In almost any situation, there's always a "BUT".

Let's say I just made a Ghost backup to a second hard drive in my PC and it resulted in three files. The file sizes were 4 gig, 4 gig and 1 gig.

The hard drive I saved those files to is needed elsewhere and I need to get those Ghost Image files off of that HD.

Ok, I can COPY them to three DVD's for storage.
I said "STORAGE".... as the files are NOT usable from the DVD's.
Somehow, Ghost knows where it put those files in the first place and it will expect to find them there, if and when it tries to restore them.

Sometime later I'm able to replace that first HD in the system and restore the GHO files to it.  I simply copy them back to the HD and from there Ghost can restore them if need be.

Ghost Knows!

The Shadow 

Normally when I make a Ghost image, I put the files where I want them to be, with NO thought of moving them any place else.  Why would I?

If you just boot up Ghost from a DOS boot disk and write the output to a DVD, there's NO reason to move it any place else.  It's already in the most SAFE and useful place.

But, let me know if you prove me wrong. 
I've been wrong before, and it only hurts for a little while. 

Cheers Mate!
The Shadow