Re: Files and transfer Cabling

Bob Giddings wrote:

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:14:49 -0400, bill horne <redydog@xxxxxxx>
wrote:



But hey, a clone *is* a backup. It may take 6 or 7 hours. But
if you can depend on the process working by itself, all that
happens while you sleep.

I've got an 80G disk with about 50G on it. It takes a little over an hour - but that's across IDE, not USB.


Does Ghost automatically reformat the target disk each time? Or
does it do a file add and replace by date? IOW, does it act in
any way like a backup program, or is it simply a cloner?

It's a cloner, but it will make an image file if you want.

I haven't seen Ghost 9 or 10, so I don't what they might do in addition to doing their thing from Windows - no dropping to DOS. They clone a live disk - something some think may be a little risky. I'll only go to to 9 or 10 if I'm completely unable to get 2003 to do what I want.

--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
.

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