Sandy,
I would be surprised to see a boot disk executable such as ghost.exe
care about what was on the disk, and I wasn't commenting on the EULA's,
but Powerquest/Symantec does prevent installations of regular versions
of their products from being installed on Windows Server despite the
software being mostly the same at the core (and the server version
won't install on a workstation if you can believe it). I did note that
they were purposefully feature limited. I believe, though I haven't
confirmed this, that Ghost will not install on a Windows
Server, but that wouldn't prevent you from cloning a disk as I pointed
out.
Matt
Sanford Whiteman wrote:
Thanks for all the great advise everyone! While pricing Ghost 10.0,
I noted that the OS requirements for Win2000 specifies "Professional
Only". What version have you used successfully with 2000 Server?
GHOST.EXE, the component you run from a boot disk for disk-to-disk
cloning, is compatible with server partitions.
I'm not offering any comment as to the EULA, but Matt's claims about
the hardware-specificity of these products don't ring true. What
constitutes a "server," when we have SATA servers and SCSI
workstations? In 10 years of using disk imaging, I've never known any
such product to make _any_ judgments on this level, since it's
impossible. Now, it is technically possible to peek into partitions to
determine the primary OS, but I am very experienced in the use of
PowerQuest DriveImage's workstation version (now folded into Ghost),
and it does no such validation when using its disk-to-disk cloning
PQDI.EXE component. The server vs. workstation licensing models,
rather, are only enforced when trying to install the GUI-based
modules: the image inspectors/browsers, "live" imaging functions,
image schedulers, etc.
You do not need to spend $700 to clone your server disk. Don't.
--Sandy
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