> I used it once upon a time to copy and expand a Windows 2000 "hard drive"
> in an emulator. That was tricky...
Holy cow. Just out of curiosity . . . what possible reason could you have
had for needing to do that?
> > 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.
That was pretty much what I had in mind, and what I thought you needed.
> > 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.
I've also seen it used from a server over a network, although that's not
something I'd personally want to do unless I was simply using a crossover to
connect a laptop to the system(s) in question, or to copy from one data
drive to another from a bootable drive in the same system as the other two
drives (also not something I'd care to do). I tend to be of the CD-backup
(for specific directories and purposes of stepping back to an earlier copy)
and drive-mirroring (for bootable redundancy) school of thought for my
personal systems, and in business systems there are better ways to do it
than using something akin to Ghost. I'm still impressed by the idea of
using multiple data channels on mirrored disks to increase performance as
well as backing up data, and as long as I've a third drive handy in case of
drive failure (or can afford to get one at a moment's notice) I'm happy.
Generally, by the time any replacement drive that would fit the mirror RAID
is obsolete, so is the OS install, and I would want to simply transfer the
data to a fresh install anyway, so I don't tend to worry about drive
replacement in perpetuity in a mirrored system.
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