If this is a regular process, I wouldn't bother with the backup after the Cleansweep and Speedisk.
Recovery will be the whole partition, or just a few? files, so either will work from the pre-cleanup copy onto the cleaned partition, and your next backup will get the benefit from the cleaned and tidied partitions. Also, if by optimising you mean speedisk, I wouldn't have expected that to have much effect on the backup, especially compared to the work involved in maximum compression I haven't got NG 10 but can you specifically exclude the pagefile (and hiber.sys), and/or the images of C and D, from a backup ? And - have you considered the (relatively) small amount of space on C:? I run W2K with about that amount of space, and I do not use a DL DVD, but still run into occasional problems, especially with software downloads that want to build all files into temp space on the OS partition before they get transferred to the place I told the process to put the files JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:42 PM Subject: Re: Software: Backing full volumes with NG 10. Image recording time to DVD-RW 8 hours was the result of using packet writing at 4X on the old Sony DRU-710A is a bit excessive and was also due to not optimizing the HD unit before starting the imaging process. I did include the images of volumes C: and D: as part of the composite backup of volume E becuase I configured NG 10 backup scheduler to place both images in the E:\Ghost Image Backups folder. I do agree that it would be better for me to put each image on a separate DVD-R DL disk than it would to nest images of C: and D: into an image of E: Plus excluding the images of C: and D: separate from the image of E: wil not only shave off an additional 19GB in adjusted space from the image of E: but time as well maybe 2 to 3 hours worth after cleaning defraging volumes C: and D: I'll just copy the images (Norton calls these restore points when creating an imaging task in the scheduler) of volumes C: and D: each one to a separate DVD+R DL disk then delete the images from the HD and run a Norton CleanSweep then SpeedDisk on volumes C:,D: and E: Since I'll be doing this I'll have to run another full image backup of E: to make it current and further reduce the consumption of DVD+R DL disk from 5 to 3 adjusted for the deletion of the images of C: and D: which average 6.5 to 7.3 GB in size each from volume E: Whew! I hope you got that striaght! I'll do this tonight. Thanks for the suggestion I was thinking of doing the same thing myself. ;) Marc Sims Data Technician I Prince George's Community College -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
