Re: [g4u-help] creating image
Hubert Feyrer wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, bb271 wrote: I have an image of a 40gig drive. I zero the free space as suggested on the g4u website and I defrag the drive before imaging. The drive has xp on it and office and I am using 6.48 GB of the 40 GB. The g4u image size is 3.2GB and I use the GZIP=1 option when I create the image because I desire speed more than small image size. I don't find using GZIP=1 to increase the size that much anyway but it sure makes a difference on speed. Perhaps someone else could comment as to why this is the case? Why what exactly is the case? Personally, I find comopressing 40GB of data (OK, of which only 6.5GB is used) down to 3.2GB pretty good. - Hubert I didn't explain myself very well. Yes I agree Hubert that it is very good. There does not seem to be a downside to GZIP=1 and that is what I was curious about. Perhaps this is particular to my setup and data? -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] creating image
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, bb271 wrote: Personally, I find comopressing 40GB of data (OK, of which only 6.5GB is used) down to 3.2GB pretty good. I didn't explain myself very well. Yes I agree Hubert that it is very good. There does not seem to be a downside to GZIP=1 and that is what I was curious about. Perhaps this is particular to my setup and data? I think so. IIRC, gzip -9 tries to be even more sophisticated when finding patterns to compress, but also for the cost of using more RAM and much more time. In the end the ratio depends on what you have on the disk - if image size doesn't matter and time to get the image done is limited (the usual case) then -1 is preferable over -9. - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] creating image
jon jon wrote: hi bb...@ncf.ca mailto:bb...@ncf.ca thanks for the reply. so if I have a 40 GB hard drive and i use 17 GB of space on it. I can use G4U to write that image to the network hard drive. It won't write 40 GB will it? It will just write the 17 GB of used space and compress the size down, right? Sorry for the noob question. thanks, jon jon I have an image of a 40gig drive. I zero the free space as suggested on the g4u website and I defrag the drive before imaging. The drive has xp on it and office and I am using 6.48 GB of the 40 GB. The g4u image size is 3.2GB and I use the GZIP=1 option when I create the image because I desire speed more than small image size. I don't find using GZIP=1 to increase the size that much anyway but it sure makes a difference on speed. Perhaps someone else could comment as to why this is the case? -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] creating image
jon jon wrote: So I want to upload and image of my hard drive to a iomega hard drive. The command I would use would be: uploaddisk [mynetworkharddriveip] [nameoffile.gz] [disk] commandip address name I give file wd0 Do I have the correct command? Can I name the file whatever I want, as long as I have the .gz at the end? Looks good to me . Now if that is the correct command to use, then it will create an image of my hard drive and compress it down in size. Does it matter if it 17 GB are written to hard drive? I don't think it does. It will take a long time. I usually do GZIP=1 //uploaddisk ip# image.gz wd0 to speed it up but you get a larger image. I connect to an iomega network hard drive using a ftp server running slackware. There are images already on this network hard drive I am new to this and don't want to write over any images. thanks jon It is my understanding that it won't write over an existing image if you use ftp and a different image name. If you use the diskcopy command I believe it completely writes over the destination disk. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
[g4u-help] creating image
So I want to upload and image of my hard drive to a iomega hard drive. The command I would use would be: uploaddisk [mynetworkharddriveip] [nameoffile.gz] [disk] commandip address name I give file wd0 Do I have the correct command? Can I name the file whatever I want, as long as I have the .gz at the end? Now if that is the correct command to use, then it will create an image of my hard drive and compress it down in size. Does it matter if it 17 GB are written to hard drive? I don't think it does. I connect to an iomega network hard drive using a ftp server running slackware. There are images already on this network hard drive I am new to this and don't want to write over any images. thanks jon -- ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
