Subj : Re: anyone recommend backup solution To : Geo. From : Alan Cairns Date : Fri Mar 30 2001 10:45 am From: "Alan Cairns" 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. -- Alan alancairns@dccnet.com "Geo." wrote in message news:3ac51e95$1@w3.nls.net... > "Alan Cairns" wrote in message > news:3ac40085$1@w3.nls.net... > > Drive Image. It is quite fast, > > Define "quite fast". Like give me a drive size and how long it takes to > image it. I would guess it should be significantly faster than a backup > program because it's treating the drive as one big file but I wonder how > free space effects it. > > For example say I image a 40gb partition which only has 5gb of files. How > bit is the resulting image file going to be? > > Geo. > > --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .