How to use Ghost to make a back up of your OS

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What do I mean by tweaking your back up?

Will the problem with ghost is that when you restore an image, all the data on partition being restored is wiped. The partition will be put exactly the way it was at the time of imaging. Lets use the main OS partition as an example. By default almost all your stuff is on that partition. Things like My Documents, Internet favorites, Down loads, and many other personal type folders reside on the C partition. So restoring a week old image can quite literally push you back a week.

How can we prevent this?

Will as you know in order to even use Ghost on a single system, you must have a second partition or HD. And cause we are using partition to image, that second location is still usable. So what we will do is move all our personal data to that location too. So lets say you have 2 HDs, when using Ghost you are saving or staging your image files to that second HD. If you also put my documents and Internet favorites on that HD too, then when you restore your main HD, all your documents will still be there. Now if we did this for all of the personal data folders, restoring a week old image would not be that bad. Now you cannot just wily Nelly move folders across your HDs. you must inform the applications that you're moving those folders. Most applications let you chose where to default save. Out look express let's you chose the store folder, by storing it on another HD, you will not lose any mail from doing a restore. You can use Tweak UI to move the My documents & internet favorites to another HD. Also if for some reason you just want to do a clean install, all your data will still be there. So for example, you format your C drive, reinstall Windows and all your applications. All you need do is re point those applications to where there personal data is stored on the other HD. This is great for E-mail too.

How about applications?

Any applications installed after an image is made, will need to be reinstalled if the image is restored. Even if the application is installed on a different partition or HD. This is if the OS partition is restored. And if the application relies on windows.

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