Restoring HD from one Win 7 64 computer to another

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Red:

 

Thanks for the tip, makes lots of sense.

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did it work then?

 

Deric

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Deric:

 

Yes, restoring incrementals individually did work. Thanks!

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jimboden wrote:

Yes, restoring incrementals individually did work.

jimboden,

 

I'm not sure what you mean. Did you restore more than one incremental?

 

 

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Brian_K:

 

I had 3 incremental backups, in addition to the base, and restored them all.

 

 

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You only need to restore one.

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Red:

 

That would be true for file and folder backups. It doesn't seem to be true for incremental backups of the whole drive. Here's exactly what was backed up:

 

Base backup 290GB, first incremental 6.5GB, second incremental 3.3GB, third incremental 4.9GB. The 3 incrementals were done once a day following the base backup.

 

After restoring from the base backup, I restored all 3 incrementals beginning with the first one. If I had arbitrarily picked one of the 3 incrementals, I would have lost the data included in the other 2. If I'm missing something here, please tell me what it is.

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Red, Deric, and Brian are correct.  You only need to restore the one you want, Ghost does all the work and assembles the base and all necessary incrementals for you.

 

Example:

sunday -base image

monday through saturday incrementals.

 

You select the incremental done on wednesday for the restore, Ghost puts together the sunday base and mon, tues, wed, incrementals and restores the whole thing at once.

 

Just choose the one image file you want the system restored to and don't worry about it being a base image or an incremental, Ghost will take care of everything necessary to restore the system to the point in time that image file was created.

 

Dave

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DaveH:

 

OK, finally got it! In an earlier post I assumed that incrementals could work backwards, which is what you confirmed. I'm usig SSR, but I realize Ghost works the same way. What I find confusing about the product is the documentation. SSR's Windows manual is over 300 pages and nowhere in there could I find a straight answer to my questions.

 

Oh well, live and learn. I really appreciate all the help everyone has provided here. Now that I understand how the volume restore works, I'll probably start using it more often.