Author: James Swafford
Date: 06:38:53 07/26/05
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On July 26, 2005 at 06:34:45, William Sorin wrote: >On July 26, 2005 at 03:55:42, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On July 26, 2005 at 03:44:35, William Sorin wrote: >> >>>A friend told me that you can compress a 40 gig hardrive to just one 700mb CD >>>using Norton Ghost, I thought this would be completely impossible. But he claims >>>this is a Standard Operation. Is he nuts or am I silly for not knowing what he >>>alleges to be common? >> >>I used Norton Ghost to make images of my initial operating system install for >>quick restore later. >> >>Off the 3 dvd's I use for initial install, the image produced by Ghost is only >>about 480mb on my saved partition. >> >>To compress an entire 40 gig drive the image would likely be around 3.2gb. 700 >>is a little far fetched. >> >>I now use Acronis True Image 8.0 for my back up needs. It is MUCH faster than >>Ghost, and I believe does a better job. >> >>Peter > > > Why when i try backing up my 4 gig partition using Norton Ghost 9.0 and High >compression option, my image is like 1.8 Gig??? The compression ratio will vary with the data being compressed. If you could guarantee (say) an 80% compression for any data set, then what would stop me from doing it twice, or three times, or... ? Eventually I'd compress my 40 g drive to a floppy disk. :) -- James
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