I use ghost all the time. The newer versions are great for backups. You can tell it to copy boot
sectors along with an copy or image of the drive. It will copy everything that has data on it.
You can even create a bootable image as long as you are burning to a cd or dvd. You can image
over to another hard drive or any device you choose. I am not sure, but I thought that ghost has
a version for linux. For you information, I use ghost 7.5 or 2003 versions.
William
--- Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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