Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

[Daniel Woods]

> >Your description of ghost makes me a bit nervous. I conjecture from it
> >that ghost backs up partitions as disk images, not file by file. This has
> >two problems.
> {snip}
>
> It backs up file by file.

Norton's Ghost http://www.ghost.com does NOT support windows 2000
(just checked) and does NOT support any Linux ext2 O/S.

Like ImageCast IC3 http://www.storagesoft.com/PCDeploy.asp
they both make a *complete* copy of the ext2 partitions. So having
a 2 Gig partition (with only 500 MB used) means 2 Gigs is backed up
to maybe 1.2 Gig image file. This makes it almost useless when you
want to back it up to CD-RW.  When both of these products support
Linux, then they would definitely be great to use.

I have also had problems using ImageCast on drives that have both
fat and ext2 partitions mixed together (c:, /boot, d:, /home, ...)
The software has problems selecting individual partitions to backup.

Thanks... Dan.