Vince Teachout wrote:
> Paul McNett wrote:
>> Vince Teachout wrote:
>>
>> Days of time? Ghosting a drive might take a few minutes setup/cleanup
>> and then a number of hours of doing something else (sleeping?)
>>
>>
> The last time I tried to ghost a drive was way, way back in 1992, and it
> failed miserably. The last HD data update I did was 3 months ago, when
> I migrated my work and programs to this machine (which already was
> setup, including VFP), and that took days of re-installs (some of which
> I'm still doing, as I come across the need).
Ghosting is easy going from smaller->larger drives. I have a
several-year-old Norton Ghost floppy that I use occasionally, mostly at
client sites when upgrading a server or something.
> So, you're saying that ghosting is now all EZ and spiffy? Will I have
> any problems going from, say a 60GB HD to a 120GB? Or any software
> registration issues? If not, then I guess it wouldn't hurt to get a
> replacement drive now, hook it to an external case, and do the
> occasional image, just to have it ready. What do you use to do yours? DD?
My Windows installations are all virtual machines. Occasionally I copy
the images (just files on my Mac) to DVD's, just so I don't need to
start from scratch if something disastrous happens. All important data
gets backed up separately anyway.
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