What software will burn a Harddisk backup on to CDR?

[chiwawa626]

What software will burn a Harddisk backup on to CDR? I have a 30 gig hd to backup, but im backing up after a clean reinstall of windows so theres only 1.2 gigs to backup i dont want to use like 40 cds, i just want to use 2 for the portion that is actauly used on the hd.?

 

[Bleep]

Norton Ghost

Bleep

 

[vi edit]

so will drive image from powerquest

 

[tcsenter]

Windows Backup works fine for true data backups vs. whole HDD images. Yes it can read/write to CD-R/RW using a UDF format or something (can't remember exactly).

Ghost and just about any other modern imaging utility will not include free space in the image file. So if you have only used 2GB on a 80GB HDD, your image file will be no larger than 2GB + a few extra MB for overhead (without compression).

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Windows Backup works fine for true data backups vs. whole HDD images. Yes it can read/write to CD-R/RW using a UDF format or something (can't remember exactly).

Ghost and just about any other modern imaging utility will not include free space in the image file. So if you have only used 2GB on a 80GB HDD, your image file will be no larger than 2GB + a few extra MB for overhead (without compression).

not neccessarily, ghost will copy free space if there is a large amount of fragmentation.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Nero does it too

 

[yakko]

I had good luck with Norton Ghost.

 

[Harvey]

Ghost is even better for burning a hard drive backup to another hard drive. When one fails, plug in the other, and keep stepping. You're never worse off than your last Ghosted backup.

At the price of hard drives, today, it's the chapest, fastest backup I can think of.

 

[tcsenter]

not neccessarily, ghost will copy free space if there is a large amount of fragmentation.

Sure, it will copy the slack in each used cluster, but I believe when you use Drive Properties to check the "used disk space", that is inclusive of slack cluster space, so 2GB is 2GB, not 2GB + cluster slack. Correct me if I'm wrong.

At any rate, you'd have to have an awfully fragmented and large drive to wind-up with more than several MB of free space on your Ghost image. I did state 2GB + a few extra MB, maybe that should have read 'no more than 2GB + several extra MB'.

On edit: I recall reading some white paper about using Ghost for forensic digital evidence gathering, cannot remember the particulars, but I seem to recall that was what the "image all" switch was for, for a bit-by-bit streaming image. Anyway, I still use Ghost 5.1D...its never failed me yet.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

not neccessarily, ghost will copy free space if there is a large amount of fragmentation.

Sure, it will copy the slack in each used cluster, but I believe when you use Drive Properties to check the "used disk space", that is inclusive of slack cluster space, so 2GB is 2GB, not 2GB + cluster slack. Correct me if I'm wrong.

At any rate, you'd have to have an awfully fragmented and large drive to wind-up with more than several MB of free space on your Ghost image. I did state 2GB + a few extra MB, maybe that should have read 'no more than 2GB + several extra MB'.

On edit: I recall reading some white paper about using Ghost for forensic digital evidence gathering, cannot remember the particulars, but I seem to recall that was what the "image all" switch was for, for a bit-by-bit streaming image. Anyway, I still use Ghost 5.1D...its never failed me yet.

we have ghost enterprise and i can say that one PC we ghosted hadn't been defragged in over 3 years. The final image of the 6.4GB(Win98 first ed.) HDD was 2.5GB under full compression. That being said, we have a base install of Windows 2000 including core apps which runs over 4.5GB and it compresses to under 800 megs.

 

[eakers]

DONT FORGET TO CLEAN YOUR HARDDRIVE WITH WINDEX!