Norton Ghost Incremental Backup

How do I do a backup which allow incremental backup for Norton Ghost later on?
Running Norton Ghost v15.

I use recovery set as recommend by Norton Ghost.

Here is what I did.

The backup I did was of recovery point set (recommended by Norton Ghost)

So how to do a backup which allow incremental backup in the future? Or I did it wrongly?

 

LunarWolf,

This should help.

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Forum-Tip-Ghost-Backup-Scheduling/td-p/264935

 

Dear Brian,

I own PE Recovery for Macrium Reflect, Easeus Todo Workstation, TeraByte Image for Windows, Paragon and so forth.

Instead of making individuals CDs, is it possible to make a bootable 8GB USB and put all the Recovery Media on it? If yes, how?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

Best regards,

KOR!

 

King of Rapture,

Yes, I've done that. I know these ISO's work from a single flash drive...

Acronis TI
BootIt NG
Copywipe for DOS
FreeDOS
Ghost 15
Hiren's Boot CD (WinPE component)
IFD
IFL
MSDOS
NetBootDisk
Shadow Protect
TBOS
Ubuntu


Just adapt this tutorial.

http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_grub4dos.php

 

@Brian K,
From what I see, the link you gave me is scheduling an incremental backup. What if I don't want to schedule an incremental backup but rather do it manually, is that possible?

 

LunarWolf,

I'm pretty sure it is. I've used manual incrementals on earlier Ghosts but I only run Ghost 15 automatically.

 

How to do manual incremental backup?

 

Dear Brian,

Thank you for the tutorial and thank you for teaching us so much on this forum, especially how to get rid off the 100mb SRP.

Many thanks again!

Best regards,

KOR!

 

KOR!,

Thanks for the pat on the back.


LunarWolf,

This works for manual incrementals...

Start Ghost 15
Tasks tab, Run or manage Backups
Define New
Backup my computer
Select the partition
Recovery point set
etc
No tick in Schedule
Run backup now. Finish


To run an incremental
Tasks tab, Run or manage Backups
Select the backup job
Right click the job and choose Run Backup with Options
Incremental recovery point of recent changes, OK

 

@Brian K
Your way didn't work. But I found out the correct way to do it.

I was using your way all this while and the incremental part was greyed out until I accidentally found the correct way.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

 

LunarWolf,

I'm glad it is working.

That's strange because I just looked at my Ghost and I can create incrementals when there is a tick in "Limit the number of recovery point sets saved for this backup".

Have you done the LiveUpdate? I have Ghost version 15.0.1.36526

 

Dear Brian,

LOL! Now, I have to pick your brain some more.

1. Is it possible to install a boot manager from one of the Imaging (Recovery) Software, let us say from Paragon and then have all the Recovery Software available on boot? Like managing several Operating System, but instead several Recovery Programs?

2. When I bought Image for Widows, I didn't buy BootIt NG. Would BootIt NG achieve the above?

Best regards,

KOR!

 

KOR!

We discussed making a grub4DOS flash drive. You should be able to put multiple ISOs on the flash drive and have "all" of your recovery apps running from there. Is that what you mean? Or did you want them on the HD?

 

Hi Brian,

Yes, I am in process of making a grub4DOS flash drive. I am collecting all the ISO files for it. This flash drive will be an excellent tool for me to use on all the home computers.

However, for my personal laptops and desktop, I will like to have in on the HD as well, as the HD are getting larger and cheaper. Thus, without hunting for the flash drive, I want to be able to get to all the images made by different imaging software, if need be.

Many thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

KOR!

P.S. In past never believed in imaging software, and always relied on formatting. Now, I am getting into imaging and snapshot software.

 

KOR!

I have Ghost 15 on my HD along with WinPE, IFD, IFL, FreeDos, MS-DOS, TBOS, grub4DOS as well as quite a few OS. These are booted by BootIt NG. A friend has Shadow Protect on his HD.

BootIt NG has a steep learning curve so don't expect to do the above in a few hours. More like months to understand how to do it.

 

Different aproach here.
1 Win7PE_SE with all my programs utilities.
And for multibooting, I prefer using EasyBCD to easily handle my boot preferences; I even run BootIt NG, IFD and IFL isos with it.

Panagiotis

 

Panagiotis,

I haven't used EasyBCD. How do you use it? From boot media or the HD?

 

From HD.
Even though for some things I prefer using bcdedit commands, I always have EasyBCD installed. Makes the management of the windows boot loader a piece of cake even for novice users.
Here you'll find all the Screenshots.
http://neosmart.net/gallery/album/view/neosmart/EasyBCD/EasyBCD 2.0/

Panagiotis

 

Thanks for that.

 

Yet another approach is to use BOOTICE: -http://bbs.wuyou.com/viewthread.php?tid=57675

Choose the disk to install grldr.mbr, click on process mbr


Choose grub4dos, click on install/config


Tick the "try to boot previous mbr first" checkbox, set the timeout(e.g. 5 seconds), default hotkey is space bar


Now copy grldr, menu.lst and iso files to a partition. During the boot, if you don't hit the hotkey, it'll boot the OS normally. If you hit the hotkey, it'll find grldr and gives the control to it, grldr will find menu.lst to show a menu, from there you can choose an iso to boot.

 

That is interesting too.

We each have our favourites.

 

Thanks to all the geeks oops Gurus for helping the noobs oops Old Geezers to learn and improve in their youngan days!

I am pretty sure, I will come back for some more help.

Many thanks and kind regards,

KOR!

 

Sadeghi85 thanks for that.
I never heard about BOOTICE before.

Panagiotis

 

You're welcome.

It can also create/edit BCD, backup/restore MBR & PBR, edit Grub4DOS internal menu, etc.

 

Sorry for the late reply, Yes I have Ghost version 15.0.1.36526. I ran the LiveUpdate after installing Ghost.