Ghost directly to CDR would take too long, plus XP isn't going to fit on 1 CDR.
If you boot from a Ghost CD/Floppy it basically is just a Windows 98 Floppy boot disk with some additional tools. We have added some tools for better network support. Then we run ghost from a mapped network drive and store/restore the image from a dedicated box we have for images on the network. The floppy/CD is irrelevant once we have booted unless you attempt to run something not in memory. The Bart PE is like a live windows CD. It can't come out. If you are talking about backing up PCs in the field I would just a Ghost CD, or a specially built floppy if you need to add additional drives. Most are on the CD. Carry a USB external hard drive. Put a plum drive in it and the Ghost CD will recognize and be able to save to it at a decent speed. I did this all the time in Vegas for my customers. I would then burn the data to a DVD or CDs for them to keep if they wanted it. Which I did after the service call. Actually i still do that at home for my own backups. If you are taking about backing up servers you are gonna need some serious space. Even Ghost with a -z9 option can be a space hog. On 3/16/07, Roger Rustad <[email protected]> wrote:
Chris Louden wrote: > 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. Once you boot it from CD in Ghost, can you pop out that CD and put in a CDR? Or do you have to output it somewhere (with some "chop in certain size chunk option") and then burn it separately? _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
