Several points 1. Sector by sector copies are amazingly space and time inefficient. I'd much rather have a product that was intelligent enough to process a volume from a logical perspective. By the way, Acronis can do sector-by-sector as well....as can most imaging products. I don't have the time or space to work with sector-by-sector images. I can push a base image to a new PC in less than 6 minutes from the network.
2. I find it interesting that you are so adamantly defending a product that, by your own admission, has components that don't (and never have) work properly. 3. You're using an purely optional feature (using with BartPE) that Ghost doesn't have as a pro for Ghost? I'd be curious as to your reasoning here actually. I hope it's something more than "it isn't officially supported", because neither is changing the SID outside of sysprep, which both Acronis and Ghost offer. For the record, I don't use the BartPE or the SID changing functionality. 4. You do realize that the ability to exclude files is an optional, off-by-default configuration setting, right? There are plenty of good reasons to do so...like excluding pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys, which can consume tens of GB for useless files that Windows will recreate upon startup. The default option is to include everything. Bottom line: I used, and loved, Ghost only up until I tried Acronis version 9. No way I'd go back now. The Universal Restore technology especially is unrivaled. You clearly use and still love Ghost, and it meets all of your needs and requirements. That's great, but don't knock Acronis when you clearly haven't given it the level of research and detail that you proclaim one must give Ghost to make a fair assessment. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Soren > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] cloning drive > > 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
