Re: [flalug] backup drive

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 15:36:06 EST


On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, perrin wrote:

> > Well, if you have Ghost (I don't), you could test it...
>
> The last time I used Ghost it was to make an exact duplicate of a hard
> drive on another drive so that someone's settings and data could be
> preserved in moving to a new (already assembled) system with a new hard
> drive, prior to clearing out the old drive so that the old system could
> be passed on to another user.

I used it once upon a time to copy and expand a Windows 2000 "hard drive"
in an emulator. That was tricky...

> As far as I recall, it didn't involve any overhead,

No, when copying, it doesn't. I was thinking when reading a hard drive
into a huge file.

> though that might have something to do with the fact that I used a
> bootable floppy with Ghost on it.

I think you have to. Probably Ghost wants to make sure the volume doesn't
have any in-use files when it does the copy.

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