Good backup apps with NTFS support?

[ThA_FiLeR]

I made the switch from FAT32 to NTFS about 2 months ago, the only problem is that I cant use ghost to create or restore backups. I am basicly looking for a backup program that will put it back even if windows is not installed anymore. I've tried Drive Image 2002, everything went well (creating image) but when it came to putting it back onto hard-drive it kept on giving me some stupid error about EZBIOS (which I've never heard of).

Thanks allot.

[ThA_FiLeR]

Anyone? I'm sure theres other people with NTFS and backups....

[Aaron]

You will need at least Ghost Corporate 7.5 or Ghost 2002 to backup NTFS drives/partitions. I believe the new Ghost 2003 supports cloning in windows.

[Aaron]

I also found this two days ago:

http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/

[ThA_FiLeR]

I have Ghost 7.0 (2002) and It allows me to restore backups onto NTFS but not create them on a NTFS hard drive which means I would have to keep a FAT hard-drive for restoring it onto a NTFS partition :/

[Aaron]

I have the same problem as you. I have to keep a small FAT32 partition on my disk for ghost backups.

If Ghost 2003 supports windows cloning, then its possible it can dump the image on NTFS drives since its not in DOS.

[FthrJACK]

RAID!!

[ThA_FiLeR]

LOL, tris, raid doesn't have anything to do with Ghost. Ghost is a tool for creating and restoring backup files.

For your information, http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

[Aaron]

and more info http://ghost.radified.com/

[FthrJACK]

so RAID mirroring doesent do what ghost does.. but a beter job of it at that then?

ghost will back your stuff up only at the point you do the backup, RAID mirroring backs up as you go along. :moon:

[Aaron]

With RAID, isn't it always constantly mirroring the data between the 2 hard drives? If you installed something you regret, how can you go back?

With Ghost, I image my clean installed XP OS with the latest patches, and restore the image whenever my OS goes tits up.

Restoring the image is better than formatting and clean installing, cos it only takes 3 Minutes to restore!! Beats the hour long formatting and installation of XP!

[ThA_FiLeR]

All mirroring does is keep both of your hard drives exactly the same, when you download something it will be on both hard drives. Mirroring is used in case one of the hard drives would fail and if there would be important info on it you will still have your other hard drive to get that information from. With ghost you make a backup file of exactly what you have at the moment u make it. Then when you restore it it will be back as when u made it, all your old mistakes will be gone.