Image file options
Image files and volume spanning
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You can use the
■First file: Image.gho
■Second file: Image.001
■Third file: Image.002
Spanning across multiple volumes and limiting span sizes
When you create an image file from a disk or partition, the destination drive might have insufficient space to store the image file. If Norton Ghost determines that this is the case, it alerts you and asks whether to enable spanning. Norton Ghost assumes that compression reduces the size of the image by
See “Command-line switches” on page 153.
Before it saves the disk contents to the image file, Norton Ghost shows the source and destination details and offers a chance to cancel. The default is to cancel.
Once the process starts, the image file creation continues until the destination volume is full.
If you started spanning onto a JAZ disk and want to span a 3.0 GB drive onto JAZ disks, you can choose to continue on JAZ disks. If you want to span across different forms of media, you can select a different type of media once the first portion of the span has completed. You cannot mix CD/DVD media with other types of media, such as JAZ or hard disk.
Record where the span segments are saved and the segment file names. Norton Ghost does not record the locations and file names you selected.
Information about the partitions is stored at the start of the image file. This is updated at the end of the Ghost process, which might require you to reinsert the first disk in the span set. Norton Ghost prompts you for the first disk in the span set and for subsequent volumes when restoring from an image.
Restoring from a spanned image
The process when restoring a disk or partition from a spanned image file is the same as restoring from an unspanned image file. However, during the restoration of the spanned image file, you are prompted for the locations of the image file spans. You must know the span segment locations and file names.
