I know I ran into issues not so much creating, but restoring a drive from a Ghost image due to what turned out to be a hardware issue. I have been using a lot of the Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme external hard drive units, 1.5Tb, in the past yeat (750Mg before 1.5Tb units came out). I like the FreeAgent line and have had good luck with them. I pay the extra amount for the USB2/Firewire/eSata II interface option as opposed to the USB2 only interface units. And for the more recent machinery I have been installing an eSATA PCI-Express card and using the eSATA II 3.0Gb/Sec connections -very fast. But on older machine with PCI only slots I just use USB2, which seemed to work fine, at least for creating ghost images and doing SyncBack file-by-file backups.
Well, one thing I ran into with the FreeAgent was they go to sleep after a 15 minute period of non-use, and for Mac OS X and 2003 Server they do not wake back up. But, at least Seagate includes software that allows me to manage the sleep management, so I disable it and now no problem with the HDD units going to sleep and not waking up properly for any OS, and not waking up at all for Mac OS X and Server 2003 <g>. I thought that was that, and life has been good. The other month (I should have posted this back then, sorry folks) I needed to restore a Drive C boot partition from an image stored on a 1.5Tb USB2 interfaced Seagate FreeAgent (non-Xtreme model). I used the Ghost CD to boot from, and 1/3 into the restore the process failed. Long story short, turns out the circuitry for the USB2 interface apparently becomes overwhelmed with so much continually transmitted data and chokes, so to say. So I moved the new HDD and FreeAgent to a machine with an open eSATA, and spare internal SATA, set of connections, and the restore process worked perfectly with data flowing at the eSATA/SATA II speeds for the two hard drives. So I guess from here out I am going to spend a little more for dual eSATA port PCI-Express cards, and not use USB2 as much as in the past. I do not know if this is an issue with the FreeAgent (Xtreme or not) units or not, but it is troubling. I know I have restored images from FreeAgent units in the past via USB2 connections, but usually the boot drives have less than 25G of files - whereas the unit with the failing restore via USB2 had a boot partition of over 700Gb (I normally try to not use large boot drives)! So until I ran into needing to restore a very large boot partition I never had a problem. So, there it is, another Heads Up for my fellow FoxHeads! Gil Gilbert M. Hale [email protected] 585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular) 585-202-4341 - Cellular/Voice Mail Legal Advisory: I have had a security expert advise me to embed the following statement in all outgoing eMails. Please read it. The statement below pertains to any person receiving or reading this document, whether or not they are the intended recipient or have intercepted this information as a non-secured communication transmitted over the Internet. Be advised you are required to comply with the following statement: This email communication (and any attached file or files) is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. If you are neither an intended recipient, or a person responsible for the delivery of this communication to the intended recipient, you are hereby advised that any use, distribution or copying of the information in this communication is prohibited. The information transmitted in this email communication, and any attached file(s), may include confidential material protected by a privileged attorney/client relationship, may be an attorney work product, or may be work performed for a client that contains confidential information. Further, an attorney/client privilege includes CPA related work under the "Kovel Rule" and other similar State and/or Federal protections. If you have received this information in error please notify the sender immediately via return email, or at 585-359-8085 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of John Weller > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 9:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Macrium Reflect and Avast Anti-Virus > > Hi Gil, > > I've made further investigations and now think that the issue was with > my > hardware not Avast. > > John Weller > 01380 723235 > 07976 393631 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gilbert M. Hale > > Sent: 26 October 2009 13:03 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: Macrium Reflect and Avast Anti-Virus > > > > Thanks John, I will keep an eye out for folks with a similar > > setup. Who knows how much grief you may have saved someone > > with your having shared that info. > > > > > > Gil > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/002e01ca5640$2d8e8110$88ab83...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
