Questions about Backups

People are not unfamiliar with the term data storage backup, however, the true meaning of backup is not fully understood.

In the average person's mind, backup is often equated with copying, and is viewed as a monotonous process of replacing and numbering tapes. This is not the case, because

Besides copying, it also includes a more important element, namely management. Backup management includes the scheduling of backups,

automation of tape drive operations, history keeping, and logging. In fact, backup management

management is a comprehensive concept, which not only includes the development of the system and tape management, but also to decide

introduction of backup technology, such as the choice of backup technology, the choice of backup device, the choice of media and even

the selection of software technology

Backup file is backup, there are some software backup file with a

Backup refers to the current normal data files in the form of a copy of the form of preservation, if the data in case of problems, but also from this backup can be restored.

On a normal day, if the system fails, the need to reinstall the system, it is likely to have to format the hard disk, so that the hard disk inside the data is gone, if there is important data need to be saved (such as text, documents, databases, pictures, etc.), you have to back up, the simplest backup is to copy a copy of elsewhere (for example, to the c-disk file copy to the d-disk)

System Backup

Download a copy of Ghost from Baidu, install it, and reboot under DOS.

Start Ghost and immediately enter DOS mode, and the first thing you need to do is to introduce the Ghost version, and then click OK to enter the main interface, which can be divided into the following items:

Local backup between local hard disks

LPT backup between network hard disks

Option settings (e.g., the number of hard disks in the network).

Option settings (generally do not adjust, use the default)

Quit exit

As a stand-alone user, we only choose Loacl, which consists of the following options:

Disk hard drive operation options

To Disk hard drive to the hard drive copy

To Image hard drive content Backup the contents of the hard disk to an image file

From Image Recover from the image file to the original hard disk

Partition Hard disk partitioning options

To Partition Full copy of the partition to the partition

To Image Backup the contents of the partition to an image file

From Image Recover from the image file to the partition

From Image Recover from the image file to the partition

From Image Image file to partition

check Check function options

Steps:

1. Choose Loacl→Partition→To Image to back up your hard disk partition as an image file with a ".gho" extension.

2. Select the drive where the partition you want to back up, click ok

3. Select the partition you want to back up, that is, the System partition, click ok

4. In the Filename column, type the name of the image file, such as "Win98.gho" and storage In the Filename column, type in the name of the image file, such as "Win98.gho", and the location where it is stored (note: you can't select the partition that is being backed up), and then press the "enter" key.

5. Choose whether to compress, No No compression, Fast Low compression, High High compression. Generally speaking, if you choose High, the speed will be slower, but it can be compressed by 50%

6. Now you can watch the progress bar go slowly. The speed of the backup has a lot to do with memory. I have to memory 64M when the transfer rate is 40M per minute. After upgrading to 128M, the transfer rate is 70M per minute, which saves a lot of time.

7. After the backup is complete, you can exit Ghost

Recover the image file: (the original hard disk partition size must not be changed)

1. Select Local → Partition → From age, from the image file to restore the system.

2. Select the source partition of the image file to be restored, click ok

3. Prompted to determine whether to restore, of course, YES

Restoration is complete, prompted you to restart the computer, enter, and you backup before the same.

Restore your system with a Ghost backup, 95% of the time than reinstalling, and, moreover, you don't have to readjust your desktop, menus, and other personal settings, isn't that convenient. If you then have Ghost Explorer (Clone Ghost Manager) you can also use him to open the GHO image file, just like using winzip, to extract and restore a file in the GHO image individually.