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Re: Off-topic: Tape Backups



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>> I've been using Ghost and a removable hard drive for backup for a
>> couple of years now.  I have a 30GB drive and back all up in disk
>> images.

>That sounds interesting.  I can't find any removable HD's on
>shopper.cnet.com -- what are you using?  Probably costs a bit more
>than the $50 per 10GB I mentioned before.  :-)


I bought Removable frames for regular 3.5" drives ($12.50 ea) and they are
fine except that you have to power down to insert/remove.

>> OK, now don't start flaming but I use a FAT32 driver on my NT 4.0
> >system because I can restore individual files from the Ghost FAT32
> >disk image.

>Couldn't you do that if both were NTFS?  Or doesn't Ghost support
>NTFS?

Actually, Ghost (I use the older 5.1 version which fits on a floppy) can
backup FAT32 To/From NTFS but it can't restore individual files from the
NTFS image only the whole disk.

~Bob