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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dan Horne
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] O.T.
Mailserver Drive Migration best Practices
I know I'm a bit late on this topic, but
this has recently become relevant to me and I have been testing various
versions of Ghost to try and move a Windows2k3 server to a different hard
drive. Here is what I have found: Ghost 2001 (which runs from a DOS
boot disk) will not copy a Windows 2003 drive, claiming that the source
drive is write protected. I do not know if this is a limitation of Ghost
2001 or a problem with the specific drive I'm trying to Ghost, but I suspect
the former.
Ghost 9 (and 10) installs to Windows desktop OS's only, and does not run
from a boot disk. The Ghost CD is a boot disk that
includes various system recovery tools, but drive copying is not one of
them. It does allow you to restore an image that was
previously made. Ghosting the drives is done from within
Windows. Therefore Ghost 9 and up only support copying Windows desktop
OS's (Win2k and XP basically). They basically crippled the Ghost product
in two ways: 1) formerly it didn't care what OS you were running, if it could
detect the drive it could copy it sector by sector. It is now Windows
only (and no servers either). 2) by doing the copy while Windows is running,
you are no longer guaranteed that "nothing will change" while copying
the drive. Previously the OS you were copying wouldn't even be running,
so you could ensure that the destination drive had the exact same contents as
the source drive. That is no longer the case.
So the long and short of it is that Ghost
now works more like an online backup than a disk imaging tool.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Friday,
November 04, 2005 7:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] O.T.
Mailserver Drive Migration best Practices
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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Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
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