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entwisi · 23-05-2008, 11:22

Including all teh bloatware, trojans, viruses, malware.......

Ghost is good but you should do a clean install, put on only teh apps that you really want, set all your configuration as you like it and THEN burn a ghost image( or if your tight like me invest 5 minutes in understanding how to use a Linux Live CD and teh dd command which is just as good). Data should always be considered seperate from system/apps as it makes it far more portable when you buy a new PC etc. IMHO you should put all personal data on a seperate partition so you can ghost/dd just your data. It also means you can splat teh system/app partition with little risk to the data

23-05-2008, 11:22	#21
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: backing up files? Including all teh bloatware, trojans, viruses, malware....... Ghost is good but you should do a clean install, put on only teh apps that you really want, set all your configuration as you like it and THEN burn a ghost image( or if your tight like me invest 5 minutes in understanding how to use a Linux Live CD and teh dd command which is just as good). Data should always be considered seperate from system/apps as it makes it far more portable when you buy a new PC etc. IMHO you should put all personal data on a seperate partition so you can ghost/dd just your data. It also means you can splat teh system/app partition with little risk to the data __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?