Ghost Solution Suite

ok I apologize up front if someone has already posted the same question. The solution option wouldnt allow me choose "I need a solution".

Situation:

Using Ghost to create images as a backup/recovery solution

Issue:

So when I started this project my original saved imaged is sitting at roughly 61 GBs per image. The source SSD is only 120 GBs.

The last image created came out to 161 GBs.  As you can tell this would be difficult to reimage a 120 GB SSD with a 161 GB image.

I am using Ghost64 to create the image. I chose the SSD and then selected the external HDD that I am saving the image to. Ghost prompts for Compress Image and I chose “Fast”.  

So my question would be a. do I need to choose the option of “High” at the “Compress Image” option or are there switches that I can apply in CMD before running Ghost?

Thanks for help  

Philip,

If you are imaging ssd drives I would make sure to use the -NOTRIM switch, this prevents ghost from trying to trim the drive (most SSD drives cannot be trimmed) before imaging. I am not sure why it would be creating an image larger than the original unless something happened during imaging.

I would run your job again using the -NOTRIM switch and then check to see what the outcome is.

Philip,

Please mark the most relevant post as the answer if the issue has been resolved.