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It sounds like you want to make an IMAGE of your C drive (which is sounds like you did in #3) and save it to be restored to another partition at a later time. Is that correct? What you have done in #1 is copied one drive to another, which is why you got those results. >>>>
Thank you...Yes, that is what I did..but I don't recall if I said "Copy"...I think I chose Backup my C drive to my F partition in another drive...there are other partitions in that drive, so F is my largest space in order to do this. Am I to understand that if I choose "Copy' instead of backup, it copies and shows like a clone of my C drive? I thought they all wind up with the typical Ghost extension? Now, in the future I would like to duplicate that, not necessarily clone image into that same F drive...I do not want to get involved in scheduling...just want to do it at random and/or necessity. I will read up chapter 6...hope I would understand it. What do you mean by navigate into the NEW drive in windows? The drive is not new...just an added drive primarily used for backups and some storage. Being in the same computer I am able to view it...is that what you mean? Or are you referring in the event of my c drive crashing, could I immediately go to that drive and boot it as it were my primary drive? I do recall when I first did the above function of my C drive it took about an hour..to get a 12 gig backed up. Recently, I made an attempt to just backup my Program Files, My documents and when I clicked on to start I got the message that it would take 18 hours, so I immediately cancelled...there is obviously something I did wrong. Now i am constantly reminded by Ghost if i want to backup missing files...which i do not understand. I keep saying no. how does one get rid of that constant reminder? Also, my Ghost icon shows a red cross and says its at risk. Thank you, again.
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You definitely do not want to perform the copy my hard drive action. That is intended to only be used when you are copying your drive to a new one and removing the old one. You only want to perform the "Backup my computer" action as that will create images (and you can set it up to save incremental changes as well). The reminder is coming up because either you have your backup set to perform incremental backups or there have been significant changes on the system to cause Ghost to prompt you to perform a backup.
HI, I am a bit intimidated with Ghost14, even after reading the manual...so I hope I can get some assistance here in this forum.
My first task was to make a copy of my C drive to another partition, in another drive, same computer.. After finishing, I went to that partition and saw an exact clone of my c drive...My first puzzlement was that it was a clone. I thought it would have been condensed to one large folder which would get extracted in the future, if and when I needed to do so.
that was about 3 weeks ago. Now, I would like to backup my C drive again to the same partition, because of some changes I had made since then. In so doing, would it automatically replace the previous version? Or should I delete the previous version first? After all, if I keep adding backups, they would fill up my partition..won't it?
Finally, I tried to do another one time backup and I don't recall getting the following suggestions when i did my first backkup...unfortunately, I don't even recall how I did that first one. The suggestions mentioned were about command files.."should I include them before capture, after capture and etc. " I do not know what that is all about.
Also, I am confused about recovery point issues. Are they not automatically included in a backup? Any info on this would be appreciated...and please, try not to be too technical :)
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Novel8 wrote:1) My first task was to make a copy of my C drive to another partition...I went to that partition and saw an exact clone of my c drive...I thought it would have been condensed to one large folder which would get extracted in the future...
2) ...I would like to backup my C drive again to the same partition...would it automatically replace the previous version? Or should I delete the previous version first? After all, if I keep adding backups, they would fill up my partition..won't it?
3) Finally, I tried to do another one time backup and I don't recall getting the following suggestions when i did my first backkup...unfortunately, I don't even recall how I did that first one. The suggestions mentioned were about command files.."should I include them before capture, after capture and etc. " I do not know what that is all about.
4) Also, I am confused about recovery point issues. Are they not automatically included in a backup?
Hi Novel8,
Let's dive right into this:
1) It sounds like you want to make an IMAGE of your C drive (which is sounds like you did in #3) and save it to be restored to another partition at a later time. Is that correct? What you have done in #1 is copied one drive to another, which is why you got those results. Chapter 6 of the Norton Ghost 14 User Guide has some great information on One-Time Backups.
2) Are you able to navigate in the NEW drive with windows? Can you boot to this new drive? You may want to reformat the new drive if it doesn't contain what you want. You are correct, though: when you create an image of the C drive to be stored on the NEW drive, you'll need to manage the space properly. If you plan on creating backup images on a regular basis, you amy want to consider created a scheduled backup.
3) For the command files, unless you're running anything to be automatically run before/after the image is created, don't worry about these. More info is in Chapter 6 of the user guide also.
4) You have a choice (and many choices within these):
create a full image of your whole drive every time
create a full image of your drive, then create little mini-images of changes that run in the background
The latter is called recovery points, or incremental images. You can schedule these to happen automatically on specific days/times, and you can set how much drive space can be used before the older ones get purged.
I hope this helps. I tried to make it as easy-to-understand as possible, but let me know if something isn't clear. It may be a good idea to print the User Guide and walk through the tasks you wish to perform. I'd also recommend doing a dry run of all the operations you wish to perform. Thanks!