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  • 1.  Create Ghost backup on local external hard drive

    Posted Jan 16, 2013 10:33 AM

    Hi all, I am trying to create ghost backups of harddrives.  Usually I do it over the network and it spans everything at 1.8gb automatically (one initial gho file and the rest ghs files; which is what I want).  However, when I do the exact same process and choose to create the image to a local USB harddrive, I can only get one large gho file, and for the life of me cannot figure out how to split it up.  I am loading Ghost from a cd, so it uses the Vista-looking interface.  I just want to be able to split the image so I can ultimately back up images to physical disks for long term storage.

    Any info at all will be greatly appreciated smiley



  • 2.  RE: Create Ghost backup on local external hard drive
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    Posted Jan 16, 2013 02:53 PM

    Check out this technote:

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH130961&locale=en_US

    Look for the Ghost command line switch "-SPLIT" - this allows you to specify the size of each backup file up to a maximum of 2048 MB.

    2048 MB is the default when saving to a network location (as the type of file system cannot be established remotely), or to a FAT or FAT32 partition. When saving to NTFS, the default is one large partition unless you set the -SPLIT parameter on the Ghost command line



  • 3.  RE: Create Ghost backup on local external hard drive

    Posted Jan 16, 2013 03:23 PM

    Forgive my ignorance, but how would I input said switch while using the boot from cd method?  Do i just close out the gui and enter ghost.exe -split=2048?  And thank you for the quick response

    EDIT- or would I have to recreate the Ghost boot disk from the Wizard?



  • 4.  RE: Create Ghost backup on local external hard drive

    Posted Jan 17, 2013 05:38 AM

    Yes, the simplest way to achieve this is to edit the command line in the Ghost Boot Wizard and then recreate the boot disk.



  • 5.  RE: Create Ghost backup on local external hard drive

    Posted Jan 17, 2013 08:23 AM

    Thank you so much.  For some reason I could not comprehend that from the directions in the manual.  I really appreciate the assistance smiley