Norton Ghost 9

Well since I recently lost 2 of my computers to “crashes” I’ve been trying to find an easy way to backup some of the office computers. Well I got a hold of a version of Norton Ghost 9 and wanted to see how it might handle being used as a back up method.

So I set it up on my computer to do scheduled incremental backups with the main backup every Friday. My rational - this will give me at worst a week old full back up . (But then maybe I have no clue what I am doing or why ;) )

Anyway - to make a long story short - these backups have managed to fill my 250Gb hard drive in less then 2 weeks. (I was informed of this when there was only 80Mb left.) So here I sit trying to clean up my hardrive to get back my space. Needless to say - I will not be using Norton Ghost to be doing my backups.

Edit: It took me a while to figure out how to free up my space. I didn’t know that when Windows empties it’s trash bin - it doesn’t really delete the files. Instead they go into a recycler folder. Anyway I eventually found this page (thank goodness for Google(tm)) and with playing with the recyling bin properties (right click) - I got it to actually delete the 212Gb file.

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