For our labs at work we use a combination of Symantec/Norton Ghost and Alteris. We have built our own BartPE CD so that we can load the RAID drivers and then launch Ghost. Alteris is nice and we use it for PXE booting however on certain hardware it may not be able to see the data due to the RAID, which is why we use Ghost. Alteris has better automation though.
On 3/15/07, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm looking for open source alternatives to imaging solutions like Symantec and Acronis. Partimage works ok when compared to something like Norton Ghost 8 / 2003. Like Norton, it requires to you to "drop down" to another OS to do the image, allowing you to bypass any garbage (screwy installers, missing passwords, not having admin rights, etc) that might prevent its installation. It's a little slow imaging (when I use compression) but restore seems extremely fast when compared to what I'm used to with Norton. Partimage "works" if you're want to boot to a CD and take the time to create a full blown image of the hard drive, but what if you simply want something that does incremental backups? Tonight I (re)found Amanda by googling. Not sure if that's overkill or too cumbersome for what I wanna do, though. _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
