[filmscanners] Re: Slightly, somewhat OT

["Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>]

I don't believe any NT-based operating system backs up the entire physical
disk space.  Only used portions of the disk space are backed up.  However,
it is not unusual for a backup program to back up hidden system files as
well as user-visible files.  This is a good thing, not a bad thing, and it
doesn't significantly increase the size of the backup.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Zabrovsky" <alexz@zoran.co.il>
To: <anthony@atkielski.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:58
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Slightly, somewhat OT


Oh, this really matters for me !
Since my system is still quite new (several weeks old), my system partition
(the one I backed up using GHOST) has only about 15-18 % utilization out of
20 GB total space, so I basically need to backup only this volume. Even
doing that I got 4 CDs burnt with the image of this partition, I can imagine
how much would eat backing up whole thing... (moreover, not sure whether the
OS backup compresses the data like GHOST does or just writes it as it is...)

Regards,
Alex Z

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:47 AM
To: alexz@zoran.co.il
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Slightly, somewhat OT


I don't run XP, but I think someone told me that the backup program
provided does a "complete" backup including the unused area of the hard
drive, which would mean a much larger backup for anyone who has blank
space on their hard drives...

Perhaps someone can confirm if this is accurate...

Art

Alex Zabrovsky wrote:

> Oh really ? I didn't know that. Great.
> However I already installed and did GHOST backup (took 4 CDs).
> Do this Automated System Recovery compress the HDD image prior to burning
to
> the media or this is done as it is ?
>
> BTW, does it create your backup DVD-RAM as bootable ? (and in this case
your
> BIOS should support
> your DVD drive as one of the bootable devices available in your system)
>
> Regards,
> Alex Z
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Bob Frost
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:27 PM
> To: alexz@zoran.co.il
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Slightly, somewhat OT
>
>
> Alex,
>
> If you have XP Pro, you don't need any special software to backup
> everything; it is built into the XP Backup routine. Just select Automated
> System Recovery and everything on your computer (including partition data)
> is backed up to the place of your choice. I use DVD-RAM for these backups.
>
> Bob Frost.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Zabrovsky" <alexz@zoran.co.il>
>
>
>
> In any case, without any relation to the backup device choice, I would
> recommend to use GHOST software which is the perfect system working-ready
> backup software. It is especially invented to allow to the user to backup
> his whole HDD including everything he has on it and in the case of HDD
> failure you can easily replicate all you had on your new HDD with any need
> for reinstallation. All your setups, software, anything is recovered
exactly
> as it was during the GHOST HDD image creation.
>
>
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