If the system has no hw problems, and everything else is working OK, here's
what I see during several days of the week:
Ghost 10 allows back up from both Win and *nix, if "copy sector-by-sector" is
selected. Creation of a boot sector on the first CD/DVD is also supported, and it works,
too.
Here's the culprit most people experience: When running Ghost from a floppy or
from HDD it doesn't work as advertized. Nope, it doesn't, and it never has.
But it surely does, if one runs it directly from the CD-ROM. From System Works
Pro CD, e.g. cd /support/ghost/ghost.exe
Used this way, Ghost still kicks Acronis deeply in their semi-Greek balls ;)
BTW, do NEVER trust a program that supports BartPE or alike for corporate use.
"...Provides imaging with removes (ie, clone but don't copy *.tmp' or
whatever)..." someone wrote.
Honestly, either it is an image, or it's not. Further, a clone is what the word
"clone" means: a clone, a complete copy.
If a clone is not an excact image, it is not a clone, but instead a bunch of
mediated marketing BS.
Personally, I'd never buy any software from a seller that cannot distinguish between
"clone" and "sort of clone", but that's probably only me ;)
About Ghost I want to say one thing: RTFM (Read The Fine Manual).
/soren
[email protected] wrote:
The acronis boot cd has a few major perks (imho)
Sorts out multi-os installs way better then ghost (more reliable)
Provides you bartpe plugins with the program
Boot cd successfully images across a network reliably with great network driver
support
Bootcd actually supports hotplugging usb to image
Provides imaging with removes (ie, clone but don't copy *.tmp' or whatever)
I'd never go back. :). New versions are even better.
Sent via BlackBerry
-----Original Message-----
From: maccrawj <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:48:30
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] cloning drive
Just did this myself for $15 after using like v6 for a number of years. Been waiting
for ever for a decent deal to justify the update!
Rick Glazier wrote:
AcronisTI is currently 2009/ver12.
If you watch the sales/deals, upgrades are as little as $4 or around $15.
Call (or e-mail) them and strike a deal with them...
AFTER you are a registered user, you can D/L the bootCD ISO from
the "your registered programs section" of the Acronis Support WEB site.
Never even have to install the program to HD unless you want to...
Rick Glazier
From: "FORC5"
Been using ghost for years and like it's simple interface but newer
versions do not seem to be able to just make a boot disk for this
purpose. On occasion ghost just does not see the drives or whatever
and does not work. When I find that I use Acronis True Image 10. It so
far always works but is a little clunky. But it works.
I want to upgrade but do not need the full program and was wondering if
Acronis® Migrate Easy would do what I want. As far as I can tell from
their web site it needs to be installed. I want something that I can
just boot to a cd.
I am beta testing Ghost 12 for Symantec and the disk will boot but it
wants to install not just do the deed I need done.
Thanks
fp
