Tips on how to use Ghost backup system

System for various reasons to reinstall this is inevitable, but also the last thing we want to encounter, with Ghost, we no longer need to worry, it will help us in the shortest possible time to restore the system.

Ghost (phantom) software is a United States Symantec company launched an excellent hard disk backup Restore tool, you can achieve FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, OS2 and many other hard disk partition format partition and backup of the hard disk restore. Commonly known as cloning software.

Since it is called cloning Software, its ghost backup restore is based on the hard disk sector as a unit, that is, you can copy the physical information on a hard disk, not just the simple data replication; Ghost supports backing up a partition or hard disk directly to a file with a. gho extension (this file is called a mirrored file) and also supports direct backups to another partition or hard disk.

We usually copy the ghost file to the boot floppy, you can also burn it into the boot disc, use the boot disk into the DOS environment, the prompt input ghost, enter can run ghost, press any key to enter the ghost operation Interface, the Ghost menu, the main menu has 4 items, From the bottom up to the Quit (exit), Options (options), Peer to Peer (point-to-point pair, mainly for the network), local (locally). In general, we only use the local menu items, under which there are three subkeys: disk (hard disk backup and restore), Partition (disk partition backup and restore), check (hard drive detection), the first two functions we use most, The following actions are explained around the partition item.

Partition Menu Introduction

It has three submenus below:

To partion: A partition (the source partition) is copied directly to another partition (the target partition), and the target partition space cannot be less than the source partition when the operation is noted;

To Image: A partition is backed up as a mirrored file, noting that the partition that hosts the mirrored file is smaller than the source partition, preferably larger than the source partition;

From image: Restores the partition from the mirrored file (restores the backup partition).

Operation Steps:

1). Select loacl→partition→to image to back up the hard disk partition as a mirrored file with a suffix of ". Gho";

2). Select the drive that contains the partition you want to back up, click OK;

3. Select the partition you want to back up, which is the system partition, click OK;

4. Type the name of the mirror file in the filename column, such as "Winxp.gho" and the location (note: You cannot select the partition you are backing up), and then press the "enter" key;

5). Choose whether compression, no no compression, Fast low compression, high compression. Generally choose high compression, slow speed, but can compress 50%;

6). Now watch the progress bar slowly go. The speed of backup is very much related to memory. The general 5 minutes can be completed;

7. After the backup is completed, you can exit ghost.