Subj : Re: anyone recommend backup solution To : Geo. From : Rohan Beckett Date : Sun Apr 01 2001 05:01 pm From: Rohan Beckett bah! I get 40meg / minute when I do Ghost Multicast's across a network! and I'm often imaging 10+ machines at once! :) Ghosting HD to HD, I often get about 100-200meg/minute and any home user who fills up 60 gig has too much pr0n, or games :) RB "Geo." wrote: > > "Alan Cairns" wrote in message > news:3ac54405@w3.nls.net... > > A full installation of Windows2k with some utilities takes up about 700 > MB, > > and can be imaged in 15 minutes. The size of the partition makes little > > difference. Drive Image knows the difference between used and unused > space. > > The resulting image file (from a 12 GB partition), is 660 MB. > > That's less than 50mb/minute. At the speed of drive image, it would take 21 > hours to backup a 60gb drive. > > Hmm.. signs that drive capacity has seriously outpaced drive speed... This > is gonna be a big problem. > > Geo. --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .