You can speed up your ghost signifanctly if you defrag the hard drive before you make a image of it. I can reimage a drive in about 5minutes if I boot with a 98 boot disk also.
Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:02 PM Subject: Re: Creating Disk Images / Backup Strategies > 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 > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
