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Norton Ghost 2002 - spanning

Aug 2, 2005 10:26PM PDT

Have been using ghost 2002 to back my entire C:-drive which is a partition on that particular HD.
I used to store the compressed file on a different HD.
When about 2.7 GB have been reached, ghost wants to create an additional file (*.ghs) to span the backup.
This used to work and a ghs file of about 300 MB was created on the same HD.
This does not work any more. The error message is that this HD has insufficient storage capacity, where in fact it has some 11 GB left.
The sequence of commands after ghostpe.exe hs ben executed from the command line, is:
Local, Partition, To Image, Drive 1, Primary, Drive J:, Compress High, Proceed.
J: is the Backup drive.
What has changed?

Herward

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Sadly...
Aug 2, 2005 10:55PM PDT

That's quite an old version. I know that's not the answer you want but I ran into unresolved issues (AKA bugs) with that and moved to the next years version quickly.

Best of luck,

Bob

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Norton Ghost 2002 - spanning
Aug 7, 2005 9:18PM PDT

I was able to find very helpful information regarding my problem on Semantic's service pages mentioned further up.
There is quite a number of different versions of Ghost and depending on this, the methods of spanning differ as well. Most of them use command line switches when typing in the executing command for ghost....exe. Ghostxp.exe is probably the most progressed version of ghost in this context.

From my side, this thread can be closed now.
Thanks for your participation.

Herward