On Thu, 23 May 2002, Bort, Paul wrote: >6. The only backup program I've ever seen that could restore a Windows NT >box to a usable state is Ghost. If you really need fast restores, consider >Ghosting the machine to a file and backing up that file.
Ghost costs dinero. Check out Mondo Rescue: http://www.mondorescue.com/ Hugo (the Mondo developer) did a demo for us here where he brought in his actual personal workstation, used Mondo to back it up onto CD (it also works with tape), and typed "rm -rf /". Naturally the crowd went wild over actually seeing someone purposefully type that command. But he let it run until the OS destroyed itself, then he just popped in the first CD in his restore set, hit the reset switch and within 30 minutes he had his entire disk back exactly as it was. He eats his own dogfood in this manner several times a week. Mondo is well tested. -- Brandon D. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computer Geek, Center for Structural Biology "This isn't rocket science -- but it _is_ computer science." - Terry Lambert on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
