dos: ghost 2003

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Jabriol

Problem:

Using Ghost 2003 on a 755MHz system.
2 identical drives.
fuji mht2030ar
with -ir switch on.

one day it will take 40 minutes to clone.
other day it will take 1.5 hr to clone.

what gives?
 
40 minutes with 30GB 4200rpm laptop drive is impresing.
Are you sure cloning was completed?
Was Ghost 2003 always ran from a cold start?
What other IDE devices you have?
 
We run a desktop system with only a IDE Cd-Rom connected. We built an
adapter module to connect the laptop drives to the primary/secondary
IDE cables of the PC. When cloning from drive to drive the master will
be on the primary channel while the other on the secondary channel. Of
course we are not transferring 30GB worth of data only about 2-3 gigs,
but you know how the -ir switch likes to grab all it can anyways. After
cloning, the PC is always shutdown to remove the drives. We're just
trying to figure out why one day we had 40 min then with the same
drives the next day 1 1/2 hours.
 
We run a desktop system with only a IDE Cd-Rom connected. We built an
adapter module to connect the laptop drives to the primary/secondary
IDE cables of the PC. When cloning from drive to drive the master will
be on the primary channel while the other on the secondary channel. Of
course we are not transferring 30GB worth of data only about 2-3 gigs,
but you know how the -ir switch likes to grab all it can anyways. After
cloning, the PC is always shutdown to remove the drives. We're just
trying to figure out why one day we had 40 min then with the same
drives the next day 1 1/2 hours.
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From the Ghost site:
"Ghost uses specific switches to create more exact duplicates of the
original disk. To copy the entire disk, including the entire boot track, all
sectors, and unpartitioned space, and to prevent Ghost from filtering
extraneous or erroneous information from the boot track, run Ghost with
the -IR switch."

So it seems to copy a whole disk, regardless of partition sizes or data on
the disk.
By the way, why do you use "-IR" switch?
 
ho said:
From the Ghost site:
"Ghost uses specific switches to create more exact duplicates of the
original disk. To copy the entire disk, including the entire boot track, all
sectors, and unpartitioned space, and to prevent Ghost from filtering
extraneous or erroneous information from the boot track, run Ghost with
the -IR switch."

So it seems to copy a whole disk, regardless of partition sizes or data on
the disk.
By the way, why do you use "-IR" switch?
Click to expand...

Yes we do the switch..
the question stil remain: our problem here is time or estimated time in
cloning
one drive to the next.. why 40 min, then 1,5 hous?
same drives... same size...
 
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