Symantec GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1 - V1.0 Manual page 20

20 Using Symantec Ghost as a stand-alone program
Creating a backup image file
To back up a disk to an image file
1 On the Ghost.exe main menu, do one of the following:
Local
Peer-to-peer connection
2 In the Source Drive dialog box, select the source disk.
The Source Drive dialog box shows details of every disk that Ghost.exe finds
on the local computer.
3
In the File Locator dialog box, type the image file destination and name.
4 In the Image file description dialog box, type a description of the image file.
You can modify this description on the Console or in Ghost Explorer.
5 Click Save.
6 When you are prompted to select the compression level, select one of the
following:
No
Fast
High
See "Image files and compression"
7
In the Compress Image dialog box, select a compression option.
8 If Ghost detects that there is not enough space for the image file, you are
prompted to enable spanning.
9 Check the details and ensure that the correct options are selected.
Click Local > Disk > To Image.
Click Disk > To Image.
For no compression
For low compression
For high compression
on page 34.