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Compression or No Compression?
Aug 1st, 2010 at 10:31am
 
What are advantages and disadvantages to using compression or no compression when creating images using Ghost 2003?  Obviously compression will use less space, but is it as reliable when restoring images?  Is compression slower faster or same as no compression?

I've always used no compression, but most posts I've seen seem to use the fast compression option.  What are differences between fast compression and high compression?
 
 
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Reply #1 - Aug 1st, 2010 at 4:03pm
 
i've always used 'fast' compression. no probs.

'high' seems to uses way more cpu and takes way more time for a little more space savings.

i discuss compression on step #10 here:

http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_2.htm
 
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Reply #2 - Aug 2nd, 2010 at 8:20am
 
Just had the opportunity to restore image created via fast compression, and it worked perfectly.  It also seemed to require about the same amount of time to create fast compression image as it di the uncompressed image.  I think I'll switch to using fast compression instead of using no compression.
 
 
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Reply #3 - Aug 2nd, 2010 at 6:04pm
 
Yeah.
 
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Reply #4 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 2:01pm
 
You would certainly want to use HIGH compression when backing up to DVD's.  Yes, it's slower but, it will definitely lessen the number of DVD's necessary to back up your drive. Wink

High Compression is also good, if you're writing your Ghost backup image files to another hard drive with limited space available.

It's certainly nice that Ghost does give us those options.  Many other programs that I've tried give you NO such options.

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