I've completed a full volume backup of Volume E: last night using NG 10.
Here are the partions, used and free space and their sizes:
Volume Total Capacity Used Free Used Space +
Free space = Total
C: 15,315,435,520MB 11.4GB 2.78GB 14.18GB
D: 35,640,102,912MB 11.6GB 21.5GB 33.1GB
E: 71,979,388,928MB 38.1GB 28.8GB 66.9GB
NG 10 volume images stored in E:\Norton Ghost Image backup\ using high
compression:
C_Drive002_S01.v2i 6,657,717,760
D_Drive002_S01.V2i 6,940,017,152
These images I will copy to 2 DVD+R DL disk.
I ran a backup using Verbatium DVD+R DL 8.5 GB disks using my new Sony
DRU-810A at 8x
clocked in at 5 hours and consumed 5 DVD+R DL 8.5 GB disks!
I recliamed the 15 DVD-RW disk by erasing them.
Backing up in the image format I can deal with in this case just as long as
your backup imaging software
can read the disk using either DVD+R or DVD+R DL disk whcih are universal and
compatible with almost
all DVD burners and players. When Microsoft's Windows Vista goes RTM I'll have
no problem with the
image file format at all.
Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College
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Have fun - but do check the resulting discs are readable on some other
system
it can be really annoying to have recovery discs you cannot read because the
drive that created them has failed
Almost as annoying as MS changing the format of their backups with the new
versions of their OS releases
so you cannot read old backups without installing the old OS, and then you
cannot read the new backups
JimB
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