20 Jan
2002
20 Jan
'02
4:02 p.m.
At 01:09 PM 1/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
IIRC, GHOST has the problem that it won't deal
directly with large drives, and
that it expects to deal with media essentially identical to what's being
backed up. I don't have a removable media disk drive with 100 GB capacity
yet, but since there are problems with disks for backup under WIndows anyway,
I'll have to wait for something for TAPE or DVD-R to come out.
Um, Ghost works fine here on > 40 gig drives. if I want to make a safe
backup, I image partitions/ discs to my server and then burn out a spanned
CD set or a set of tapes. I backup under win2K Using a DLT 2000 drive and
Veritas (formerly Seagate) backup. I have YET to have any problems reading
backup media from one drive to another.
What I'm after, of course, is scheduled backup that
doesn't require any human
interaction at all, other than daily removal of the backup media from the
previous backup.
Ghost isn't really designed for unattended use, and it's not a backup
program as such, it is designed to image HD's for restoration to a new HD
or to install one copy of an OS on one machine and blow copies out onto a
boatload of other machines.
The biggest problems with the Dos/Win backup software that shipped with dos
and win95 / 98 is that the compression method changed between dos 6.0 and
6.22 (can you say Stac, Inc. lawsuit) and then it changed again for the
win95 and 98 versions... tape drive support was an afterthought on those
also, it was designed to back up to floppy discs. for good tape support
you needed to upgrade to backup express (the retail version from seagate,
now veritas)