On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:39:04 -0600 (MDT), you wrote:
>> >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.
When you say "supports" you mean "runs under". For all my backups, hdd
to mirror hdd, in Mandrake, W2000 and W-ME, I use two floppy disks.
The one containing MSDOS 7 I boot from, then switch in the second
containg Ghost 5.0d. What's so hard about that?
>
>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.
Why an image file? Back up the partition to a smaller partition (as
long as it has enough room for the data). I am speaking on the basis
of pre-Norton Ghost 5.0d. Find a copy of 5.0 or 5.1 Ghost and try it.
Steve
Stephen B. Browne
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