How to copy or "Ghost" a drive

[bryant]

But when I want to re-ghost every month or so the entire C: hard drive, would one have to redo the whole operation again.

I am not sure if this got answered.

Reason for asking is that a lot of different databases add material (data) to them over the course of a month?

And how is this process done with Norton Ghost (updating every month which may mean whole new copy)??

[gduns - with the Lord]

Actually Ghost supports incremental backups. so you dont have to do the complete backup every month.

I use ghost, and Make an image of the "c:" drive on my external usb drive. I save it in a folder named "c 2_2_2007" telling me it was last backed up on 2/2/2007. Ghosting to a hard drive, if you dont clutter up the c drive with a bunch of crap only takes about 15-20 minutes. I keep about 15 gigs on the c drive, and everything else on the external.

I also keep an extra external, and copy the first one to it incase it crashes. you cant be too safe.

[bryant]

Ahhh, I see, my acronis probably takes the same approach I'm sure. However, when you do an incremental, does it include files that have been
deleted from the C: Drive in the last month or so,
or will it somehow delete the files from the ghost that were deleted from the C: Drive.