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I've used Ghost for several years and like it very
much. Ghost has an optional CRC32 file output which
can be generated while backing up. I have written a
simple program to use this CRC32 output to generate an
additions, deletions and changes file for any backup
relative to any other.
~Bob
--- "Daniel A. Poiree" <danielpoiree@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I hope some of you might be able to help.
>
> I have been trying to find a way to do a complete
> backup of my drives, most
> of wich are about 7 - 15 gigs each on three
> different computers. (I'm
> backing up to removable hard drives.)
>
> I can create disk imiges using ghost which is fine,
> but then I'd like to do
> a differential backup of changed files since doing
> the disk image. I'd been
> advised that if I ran the command "attrib -a *.* /s"
> at a c prompt imediatly
> after doing the disk image, all the files would be
> marked as backed up and
> any differential or incremential backup would back
> up only the files that
> were new or changed since running the "attrib -a *.*
> /s"
>
> The problem is that when I did a test using the
> backup utility in W2000, 4
> gigs of data to back up.
>
> Simply using the same backup utility to do a
> complete backup of the C drive
> generates an error after the backup files reaches a
> size of about 4 gigs.
> (I'm using FAT 32 file system.) Curiously, sometimes
> the error says the disk
> is full when there are many gigs free.
>
> I'm left to wonder if there is a four gig limit to
> the file size using FAT
> 32. I've have conflicting advice from so called
> experts but I havent found
> anything official from microsoft.
>
> I was also advised to use NTI's Backup NOW! product.
> The problem with it is
> that I can't get it to back up to anywhere except
> the CDRW. I don't want to
> spend hours swaping CD's to do a backup.
>
> So, I think I could get all that I want if only I
> could reset the "Backup
> tag" or whatever it is that really triggeres the
> backup utility into backing
> up or not backing up. I suspect that the "A" tag
> doesn't get changed on
> hidden or read only files and that I could change it
> if I removed the "H" or
> "R" tag, but then how could I reset the "H" or "R"
> back again on all thoes
> files?
>
> Obviously, I'm not much of a DOS user.
>
> Last, I had one person suggest that I use Backup
> Exec by VERITAS. Does
> anyone know if that would backup 15 gigs to a hard
> drive? (I'm getting tired
> of buying software that only does half the job!)
>
> Another suggested ZTree...
>
> I want to be able to get going again relitivly
> quickly after a hard drive
> crash, fire, theft, etc. without reloading all the
> software and then the
> data.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Daniel Poiree
> Bellingham WA
>
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