Re: Files and transfer Cabling

"Bob Hatch" <bobhatch@xxxxxx> wrote:

"bill horne" <redydog@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

I use Ghost 9. It's a cloner, a copier, and a backup program. I use it to
clone my C: drive, and to backup all data on my D: drive to an external USB
drive. The backup program runs in the background, invisible, and does a full
backup every Monday at 8:00 AM, and daily incremental every 12 hours after
that. All those settings can be changed by the user.


I've got a question not concerning backup. I've never been able get a
definitive answer. If I use the Move command to move whole directories,
does Windows XP update the registry pointers for program and data
locations, or do you have to reinstall everything to get the pointers
changed.

I want to create a new partition and make a D: drive for programs and
data, but I don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall everything to
do it.
--
Frank Tabor
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