Ghost would require a reboot from floppy to image the system. There are no open files at that point because you mount the OS from the floppy. Takes some time too. If doing a NIC image transfer, how long does it take to transfer 8 GB of data on a private network? Completely and totally rebootable should the old HARDWARE blow up. Say you are not RAID and the drive is toast, get a replacement and restore. I use Ghost to build dedicateds in 20 minutes.
The other angle is a Veritas rebuild. Metaedit, NTUSERS(for the NTFS Users and ACLs), Veritas for the files/registry and a few custom scripts for special items. This is typically the case that the OS is the problem, as all my hardware is paired. OS crashes and the metabase.bin is junk. I have done 13 complete Veritas rebuilds on some really old NT4 stuff. Veritas does save the day....sometimes. Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jochem van Dieten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 05:41 Subject: Re: Creating Disk Images / Backup Strategies > Brook Davies wrote: > > Is Ghost able to back up "open" files, registry settings etc? > > Never looked at that, because I never had to. In general, on would > reboot the system using a special bootdisk, make the image, and reboot > to the normal OS. And if you know for certain that the network is down > on certain regular intervals it is not too hard to schedule it. But I > wouldn't recommend it on 24/7/365 systems. > > Jochem > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
