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How to backup a 120GB source drive with 50GB on it to a 40GB backup drive
Hi,
I have recently installed Ghost 9 on my 120GB hard disk with 50 GB of used space on it and much to my regret have found that backing it up on a second 40GB drive is impossible since the created image file is bigger than the source data. In other words the destination drive must be larger (or at least equal in size) with the source drive. Is there any application in which I can use my 40GB drive to backup say 60-70GB from my source drive? Thanks, Josh |
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Josh wrote: Hi, I have recently installed Ghost 9 on my 120GB hard disk with 50 GB of used space on it and much to my regret have found that backing it up on a second 40GB drive is impossible since the created image file is bigger than the source data. In other words the destination drive must be larger (or at least equal in size) with the source drive. Is there any application in which I can use my 40GB drive to backup say 60-70GB from my source drive? Thanks, Josh MP3,Videos? No. Text Files and other highly compressable Files? yes,build in Windows Backup |
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Josh wrote:
Hi, I have recently installed Ghost 9 on my 120GB hard disk with 50 GB of used space on it and much to my regret have found that backing it up on a second 40GB drive is impossible since the created image file is bigger than the source data. In other words the destination drive must be larger (or at least equal in size) with the source drive. 50 GB should compress enough to fit on a 40GB drive. You are using compression, right? Is there any application in which I can use my 40GB drive to backup say 60-70GB from my source drive? Well which is it... 50 or 60-70GB? -- -WD |
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That depends on how compressible your data is.
"Josh" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I have recently installed Ghost 9 on my 120GB hard disk with 50 GB of used space on it and much to my regret have found that backing it up on a second 40GB drive is impossible since the created image file is bigger than the source data. In other words the destination drive must be larger (or at least equal in size) with the source drive. Is there any application in which I can use my 40GB drive to backup say 60-70GB from my source drive? Thanks, Josh |
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