I saved a complete backup with Ghost One Time Backup one month ago. It took about 6 minutes (including verify) and the final size of the Ghost file was 20 Gb. I have saved a Ghost image before and they also ended around 20 Gb.
Today I saved a complete backup using One Time Backup again and today the final size is only 14 Gb and it only took 4 minutes.
I had hoped there was a detailed log file but the log file only mentions that my C drive was copied.
Since I am still using 40 Gb of 240 Gb on my C drive, I find it very weird that the Ghost image should suddenly drop from 20 to 14 Gb.
I saved a complete backup with Ghost One Time Backup one month ago. It took about 6 minutes (including verify) and the final size of the Ghost file was 20 Gb. I have saved a Ghost image before and they also ended around 20 Gb.
Today I saved a complete backup using One Time Backup again and today the final size is only 14 Gb and it only took 4 minutes.
I had hoped there was a detailed log file but the log file only mentions that my C drive was copied.
Since I am still using 40 Gb of 240 Gb on my C drive, I find it very weird that the Ghost image should suddenly drop from 20 to 14 Gb.
I saved a complete backup with Ghost One Time Backup one month ago. It took about 6 minutes (including verify) and the final size of the Ghost file was 20 Gb. I have saved a Ghost image before and they also ended around 20 Gb.
Today I saved a complete backup using One Time Backup again and today the final size is only 14 Gb and it only took 4 minutes.
I had hoped there was a detailed log file but the log file only mentions that my C drive was copied.
Since I am still using 40 Gb of 240 Gb on my C drive, I find it very weird that the Ghost image should suddenly drop from 20 to 14 Gb.
Any ideas would be welcome.
Hi, Was ther a change in the compression used? I sometimes use the 'high' compression so that the file size is small enough to fit a limited space media.
Have there been any big changes in the data you are storing? Text files can compres down to almost nothing.
Keep us posted
I have used "Standard" compression every time. I have saved a complete backup 4 times now since I started using Ghost and I haven't deleted anything. Besides I always check how much space is used before I run Ghost. The first 3 times that I saved a Ghost image the size was 20 Gb.
My C drive is 240 Gb SSD and my D drive is a 1 Tb regular harddrive
There has been no change in the files I have on my C drive, so it has nothing to do with text files.
I have also used verify every time and I didn't get any error messages, but I still find it weird that the backup is only 14 Gb this time.
If you choose to try it you need to set it to show the comparison by size.
Edit > Options
On the left side click "compare" then on the right size select "file compare method by Size".
Then mount the 2 images by right click on then and selecting "mount". Give them each a different drive letter.
Then back in winmerge go to File > Open
Select the 2 mounted images by letter, one on the left side one on the right.
Have it do the compare (may take several minutes) and you should be able to clearly see the differences between the 2 images, 6GB of stuff should be easy to spot.
I guess I found the answer now. intesec recommended to use CCleaner, and those times that I have cleaned my harddrive first with CCleaner before saving a Ghost image the final size of the Ghost image has been about 6 Gb smaller, even though CCleaner only got rid of less than 1 Gb.
I have just saved one more Ghost image and today I forgot to use CCleaner first and the size of my Ghost image is 20 Gb.
I trust Ghost as it is now. I always use verify and the verify has always reported everything okay.
I saved a complete backup with Ghost One Time Backup one month ago. It took about 6 minutes (including verify) and the final size of the Ghost file was 20 Gb. I have saved a Ghost image before and they also ended around 20 Gb.
Today I saved a complete backup using One Time Backup again and today the final size is only 14 Gb and it only took 4 minutes.
I had hoped there was a detailed log file but the log file only mentions that my C drive was copied.
Since I am still using 40 Gb of 240 Gb on my C drive, I find it very weird that the Ghost image should suddenly drop from 20 to 14 Gb.
I saved a complete backup with Ghost One Time Backup one month ago. It took about 6 minutes (including verify) and the final size of the Ghost file was 20 Gb. I have saved a Ghost image before and they also ended around 20 Gb.
Today I saved a complete backup using One Time Backup again and today the final size is only 14 Gb and it only took 4 minutes.
I had hoped there was a detailed log file but the log file only mentions that my C drive was copied.
Since I am still using 40 Gb of 240 Gb on my C drive, I find it very weird that the Ghost image should suddenly drop from 20 to 14 Gb.
Any ideas would be welcome.
Hi, Was ther a change in the compression used? I sometimes use the 'high' compression so that the file size is small enough to fit a limited space media.
Have there been any big changes in the data you are storing? Text files can compres down to almost nothing.
Keep us posted
I have used "Standard" compression every time. I have saved a complete backup 4 times now since I started using Ghost and I haven't deleted anything. Besides I always check how much space is used before I run Ghost. The first 3 times that I saved a Ghost image the size was 20 Gb.
My C drive is 240 Gb SSD and my D drive is a 1 Tb regular harddrive
There has been no change in the files I have on my C drive, so it has nothing to do with text files.
I have also used verify every time and I didn't get any error messages, but I still find it weird that the backup is only 14 Gb this time.
If you choose to try it you need to set it to show the comparison by size.
Edit > Options
On the left side click "compare" then on the right size select "file compare method by Size".
Then mount the 2 images by right click on then and selecting "mount". Give them each a different drive letter.
Then back in winmerge go to File > Open
Select the 2 mounted images by letter, one on the left side one on the right.
Have it do the compare (may take several minutes) and you should be able to clearly see the differences between the 2 images, 6GB of stuff should be easy to spot.