Re: backup strategy...
From: Brian A. (gonefish'n_at_afarawaylake)
Date: 02/23/05
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:59:57 -0600
"RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I thought I had one, ....now I'm beginning to wonder?
> (I use XP Home ed. on c: ...cross posted to W98 'cause this is really a
> back-up question & solution possibly of interest to more than just me?)
>
> I have 2x80gb Maxtor 6Y080L0's on IDE0 -
> drive's c: d: e: & f: on the master hd and g: h: i: j: & k: on the slave
> hd.
>
> Now, I use Norton 9.0 to ghost c: into a folder on drive i: in 700mb
> chunks, and stuff a Windows back-up "system state only" in there as well,
> and keep promising myself that I'll burn all chunks to cd-r just after
> doing it.
>
> Then I Ghost drive's i: and j: into folders on drive f: (just dawned on me
> that I'm ghosting an already ghosted drive c: back to i: ! ...will have to
> sort that out).
What's on F: besides the ghosted images of ghosted images? Why not just
exclude F: when conducting a image as a secondary image? In other words
create an image of C:, D: and E: on F.
>
> If my drive c: went bang and had to be replaced, and I had to restore c:
> from image file/s on drive i: , how's it done ?
Create a Standard or CD/DVD startup disk with Ghost Wizard which will allow
you to boot to Ghost in DOS where you can then access the images to restore.
If you're on a network then create either a Drive Mapping or 2 PtoP Ghost
boot disks with the wizard.
Another thing to try is copying Ghost.exe to I:, then you could boot with a
98 boot disk and run Ghost from DOS to access the images for restore. I have
added ghost.exe and ghreboot.exe to drives with images, then added a line in
autoexec.bat of network boot disks pointing to ghost.exe on the drive so it
boots directly to Ghost. Ghreboot is actually only needed if you run Ghost
from the Virtual Partition.
> Pitfalls anybody ?
>
> I was guessing that after replacing the master hd, I'd install XP Home ed.
> onto drive c: on the new drive, then install Norton Ghost 9.0, ...but how
> would you overwrite the windows platform and the Norton Ghost program
> that's being used on c: to restore the image ?
The image you use can only be restored/cloned to a drive of equal or
greater capacity.
Ghost.exe is a very small app and all that's needed to execute it which is
DOS based. There would be no need to reinstall XP as the ghosted image
overwrites anything on the drive restoring it to that image. FYI, anytime
you ghost an image to an drive with an OS you will get a prompt letting you
know that it is an OS drive and that continuing will overwrite anything on
the drive with the choice to continue or cancel.
On another note which the folks in XP can help out with is making sure you
have the activation files and such so possibly you won't have to go thru the
rigamaroo of reativation.
-- Brian A. Conflicts start where information lacks. http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
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