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Author Message   Joan Supporter Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 6158 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 8:02 pm:        I just purchased a new external hard drive to back up my internal hard drive. The external drive came with software called Retrospect. Is this software as good as Ghost or should I also install Ghost for doing the back-ups?   monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 1190 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 9:35 pm:        Retrospect for true backups and synchronization, Ghost for drive imaging.   Joan Supporter Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 6163 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 9:38 am:        So when I copied the full contents of my F drive to my G drive using Ghost 9.0, I didn't do a "true" back-up of the F drive? What won't that back-up accomplish that a true back-up would? Do I need to run both programs?   monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 1194 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 2:56 pm:        No you're fine, you made an exact duplicate of your hard drive which will work, a backup program will be able to add new items that you've added to your system to the drive containing the backup, without having to make a complete copy of the drive every time.   Joan Supporter Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 6167 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 4:26 pm:        Thanks.