I have small business server 2003 installed on a sata drive. I am backing it up to another sata drive. There is about 100GB of data. It took 20 hours to backup using ntbackup. Using ghost 14 on my vista machine took 3 hours to backup 160GB to another sata drive. Any ideas why it takes so long on the server using ntbackup?

NTBackup is hashing the first backup you take (and any "full" backup) in the event you do any differential or incremental backups off of it in the future, so that it doesn't back up anything that's not changed. Ghost is a backup of all sectors, no real "checking" as you aren't going to also use it to make incremental or differential backups, as it's not a product feature.

I see. Is there a setting for a full backup so that it creates an individual restore backup so that it has the backup on every full backup?

If you mean "is there a way to have a full backup by using the previous backup and only adding to it so it's faster next time", the answer is no.

Thanks for the info. I guess I need to go with ghost.