A 'Ghost-like' tool that backs up individual folders and files?

22 Mar 2005 1:02 AM

the messenjah

Ghost has the unfortunate limitation of forcing you to mirror entire
partitions or drives. Is there any software tool that allows one to
hotswap in a burner or usb drive and rip individual files and folders
straight off the hard drive onto your media of choice?

22 Mar 2005 1:22 AM

kony

On 21 Mar 2005 17:02:49 -0800, messen***@mailinator.com (the
messenjah) wrote:

>Ghost has the unfortunate limitation of forcing you to mirror entire
>partitions or drives. Is there any software tool that allows one to
>hotswap in a burner or usb drive and rip individual files and folders
>straight off the hard drive onto your media of choice?

You mean software that supports the filesystem so you can
access the partition, loads drivers for these devices so
they're accessible and can be copied to using a familiar
GUI?

These guys make the most popular software for that,

http://207.46.244.188/evil_overlords_own_your_data.html

Sorry, couldn't resist.

22 Mar 2005 3:01 AM

NuQ

the messenjah <messen***@mailinator.com> wrote:

> Ghost has the unfortunate limitation of forcing you to mirror entire
> partitions or drives. Is there any software tool that allows one to
> hotswap in a burner or usb drive and rip individual files and folders
> straight off the hard drive onto your media of choice?

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

22 Mar 2005 11:12 AM

nobody

messen***@mailinator.com (the messenjah) wrote:

>Ghost has the unfortunate limitation of forcing you to mirror entire
>partitions or drives. Is there any software tool that allows one to
>hotswap in a burner or usb drive and rip individual files and folders
>straight off the hard drive onto your media of choice?

Right click, copy paste.

Without more info (fi, do you need incrimental or differential
backups, compression, encryption, automation... ?) that's the best I
can suggest.

It's a software question too.

24 Mar 2005 11:30 PM

alexty

the messenjah wrote:

> Ghost has the unfortunate limitation of forcing you to mirror entire
> partitions or drives. Is there any software tool that allows one to
> hotswap in a burner or usb drive and rip individual files and folders
> straight off the hard drive onto your media of choice?

Try SyncBack