Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> In fairness, Ghost does much, much more than dd does. In particular,
> Ghost comprehends NTFS, so you can do things like restore to a partition
> of a different size, backup only the "used" sectors, etc.

Like the many ntfstools? I'm sure there's one that can skip free blocks.

> It also has 
> the ability to backup and restore over the network using compression and
> so forth.

According to Unix philosophy, no backup tool should have compression
built-in. If you need it, you use a pipe and an external compression tool.

> And you can browse and modify the backup image on the server 
> without having to restore it first.

Mount it with a loop device.

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