Norton Ghost - problem with NTFS?

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Have SystemworksPro 2003, just reading the help file for Ghost, which
says you cannot use the skipfile parameter with NTFS, only with FAT32.
This seems like a serious problem, since you're forced to back up the
recycle bin, temp files, and huge programs like Encarta that aren't at
all worth backing up. Am I missing something?
 
A true imaging program cannot skip files. Ghost can skip FAT files because it
is a simple archive format, but for NTFS its format is more raw (it starts by
dumping the MTF).

| Have SystemworksPro 2003, just reading the help file for Ghost, which
| says you cannot use the skipfile parameter with NTFS, only with FAT32.
| This seems like a serious problem, since you're forced to back up the
| recycle bin, temp files, and huge programs like Encarta that aren't at
| all worth backing up. Am I missing something?
|
 
Have SystemworksPro 2003, just reading the help file for Ghost, which
says you cannot use the skipfile parameter with NTFS, only with FAT32.
This seems like a serious problem, since you're forced to back up the
recycle bin, temp files, and huge programs like Encarta that aren't at
all worth backing up. Am I missing something?
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Yes. Ghost is an imaging program not a backup program. If you don't
want to image certain files on your drive, then delete them before
imaging the drive. I suggest Eraser for this.
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
 
Yes. Ghost is an imaging program not a backup program. If you don't
want to image certain files on your drive, then delete them before
imaging the drive. I suggest Eraser for this.
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
Click to expand...

Thanks for the info. Of course, this won't work for programs like
Encarta, or mapping programs with 1G+ in image files. Guess there's
no way around it, but it sure makes for more of a hassle to back up to
CDs....
 
Thanks for the info. Of course, this won't work for programs like
Encarta, or mapping programs with 1G+ in image files. Guess there's
no way around it, but it sure makes for more of a hassle to back up to
CDs....
Click to expand...

You could configure Eraser to delete various temp files that are just
taking up space. But for permanent data files like what Encarta uses
maybe it would be easier to have those on a different partition or
drive? I only bother to image my system partition which has little
other than the basic operating system files on it configured how I
like it.

BTW, don't worry about the size of the pagefile - Ghost stores it as a
0 byte file.
 
Steve wrote:
| (e-mail address removed) wrote:
||| Have SystemworksPro 2003, just reading the help file for Ghost,
||| which says you cannot use the skipfile parameter with NTFS, only
||| with FAT32. This seems like a serious problem, since you're forced
||| to back up the recycle bin, temp files, and huge programs like
||| Encarta that aren't at all worth backing up. Am I missing
||| something?
||
|| Yes. Ghost is an imaging program not a backup program. If you don't
|| want to image certain files on your drive, then delete them before
|| imaging the drive. I suggest Eraser for this.
|| http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
|
| Thanks for the info. Of course, this won't work for programs like
| Encarta, or mapping programs with 1G+ in image files. Guess there's
| no way around it, but it sure makes for more of a hassle to back up to
| CDs....

You can install programs like Encarta on a different partition than where
your system files reside. I do this for just the reason your describing, to
keep the image files smaller by removing stuff that is rather easily
reinstalled.
 
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