Greetings All! I am about at the end of a 3 week journey to LA, a visit mainly meant to help my parents and my aunt (long story, nothing good). I had hoped to see some friends and associates, but despite the 3 week stay I only was able to see my clients this past week, everything else was focused on family matters.
Anyway, regarding the question about disk imaging, I use Norton Ghost on most of my workstations, and Norton's Save & Restore (based on Ghost technology) for the PC I use to manage my Outlook eMail/Contact/Calendar app. For my Servers I use RTT's R_DriveImage ($45 per machine, works on Windows client and server based platforms!). If you want to schedule automatic imaging, all 3 apps will handle that. I really like R_DriveImage for Server class OS use (Win NT4/2000/2004 Server), and would be tempted to use it for all my workstations as well, other than the fact I had already licensed Ghost for my workstations. The only downside with R_DriveImage (which I hope is resolved with an upgrade) is the inability to recover a SATA HDD from a boot CD directly, lack of drivers I think. I get around this by using a separate Win 2003 Server PC to recover an image to a HDD hung as a non-boot HDD, then swap it into the Server I needed to do the recovery for. No big deal if a person has a lot of PCs to use, but for a field repair it could be disastrous. A major plus is the R_DriveImage boot CD will allow a person to create an image without installing the app on a particular PC - whereas Ghost stopped doing that after Norton purchased the PowerQuest DriveImage app and blended it with their Ghost app. I do, as an aside, use my older PowerQuest DriveImage (pre-Norton) once in a while as an imaging utility once in a while for PCs brought to me for malware cleanup. I do not often do that kind of work any longer, but it is a nice tool to use. Oh, did I mention that RTT R-DriveImage is only $45 and it works with Win Server as well as workstation platforms? I know, I did mention it, but I wanted to make certain nobody goes out and drops a lot of wampum on more expensive options unless there is a compelling reason to do so. Also, you have to download R_DriveImage (www.r-tt.com), unless they have recently gone retail with their app. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Malcolm Greene > Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 4:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [NF] Recommendation for disk image software (Acronis, Norton > Ghost,other) > > > Looking for recommendations on a software package to image a few > desktops and servers. > > Acronis (www.acronis.com) has a variety of imaging applications that > look good. There's also Norton Ghost which I used years ago ... but I've > heard mixed reviews regarding recent versions of this product. And I > have not had good customer service experiences with Symantec products. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks! > Malcolm > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
