I backed up 2 drives on my pc to an external hard drive so that I can reformat and then restore but I noticed that the backed up files and the original file sizes are different, one by as many as 7G. My questions is how do I know that everything was backup correctly, or better stated should the backup and original drives be the same size.
MsBD wrote:
[ ... ] My questions is how do I know that everything was backup correctly, or better stated should the backup and original drives be the same size.
I don't use GHOST 14 but there used to be a Verify function which you can run as a separate operation or as part of the making the backup file (at one time it was found better to do it separately). My understanding of this is that it makes a code from the files to be backed up and then makes a code from extracting the files from the backup and compares the two codes. If they are the same then the backup files are the same as the originals.
This would be true despite the compression in making the backups.
You can mount the recovery point in Norton Ghost. After mounting, the recovery point will be shown as drive in Windows Explorer where you can check the contents.To mount a recovery point from Windows Explorer follow the steps below:
1 In Windows Explorer, navigate to a recovery point.
The recovery point is located in the storage location that you selected when you defined your backup.
2 Right-click the recovery point, and then click Mount.
3 In the Mount Recovery Point window, under the Drive Label column,select the drive that you want to mount.
4 In the Drive letter drop-down list, select the letter that you want to associate with the drive.
5 Click OK.
6 To mount additional
Another option is to use the feature "Verify recovery point". To verify the integrity of a recovery point, follow the steps below:
1 On the Tools page, click Run Recovery Point Browser.
2 Select a recovery point, and then click Open.
3 In the tree panel of the Recovery Point Browser, select the recovery point.
For example: C_Drive001.v2i.
4 On the File menu, click Verify Recovery Point.
If the Verify Recovery Point option is unavailable, you must first dismount the recovery point. Right-click the recovery point and click Dismount Recovery Point.
5 When the validation is complete, click OK.
--Vinod
I backed up 2 drives on my pc to an external hard drive so that I can reformat and then restore but I noticed that the backed up files and the original file sizes are different, one by as many as 7G. My questions is how do I know that everything was backup correctly, or better stated should the backup and original drives be the same size.