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Earl, I went down this path of USB drive as backup, but didn't take it
to the point of a working solution. I came to the conclusion that you
did that the USB drive would be problematic if you had to restore from
ground zero after a system failure. What *might* work however, would be
a two-stage approach, where you back up Windows, its system files, and
registry using Ghost to a writeable CDROM, making sure to write it as a
(DOS) bootable CDROM, with Ghost as one of the programs resident on the
CDROM. You'd then direct Ghost to restore the system files to the hard
drive, and then reboot into Windows from the hard drive. Then, you'd
load the rest of the files from the Backup Exec (whatever) image written
to the USB drive. One issue might be the registry. As I recall, Backup
Exec would let you write the registry to floppies, and this had to be
restored in DOS mode. It might be possible to write the registery to a
CDROM, making the recovery set two CDROM's, and one USB drive. This set
up would likely be more workable if Windows and its system files were
relegated to an approx. 500 meg. partition that could be saved/restored
in one fell swoop off a CDROM, using Ghost.
Anyway, things got sufficiently complex that I finally just gave up on
the whole effort. Unfortunately, for now, that also means I don't have
a backup unless I want to use the parallel port Ditto(tm) drive, which
takes about 24 hours to back up a 10G drive. :(
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