Greetings all! Sorry for jumping into this thread so late. I have been buried with a few projects and have not been doing much eMail. I use Norton Ghost v9 and v10, as well as their Save & Restore 2.0. I am also still using the old pre-Symantec PowerQuest DriveImage v-7 on one machine. All worked well on Workstation class Windows OS, but not for Windows Server class OS. I did not want to pay a few gazillion dollars for Acronis' Server imaging. But I did find a disk imaging app that is great for either Windows Desktop or Server class platforms, and it is under $50.00 to license per machine! I know I have mentioned this app in the past, but here goes again. It is r_DriveImage from www.r-tt.com. Here are the features I find so useful:
- works with Windows Desktop and Server class OS - can be scheduled to run automatically - CD can be used to create or restore (Ghost can only restore from the Boot CD) - Price is certainly right on the money There is one limitation I have found, when restoring an image to a SATA HDD you can't restore directly to the drive in a machine booted from their restore CD (unless that has changed in a recent release). I actually had to remove a SATA HDD and place it in a separate machine as a slave drive, then restore from the USB HDD with the image files onto the migrated SATA HDD. After that I move the SATA HDD back into its own machine, and all worked fine. Other than that it is one hot product, along with their other offerings (which I have licensed also). Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Weller > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [NF] Disc Imaging Software > > > I've been using Ghost 9 for some time to make backup drive images with no > problems. I've recently been having some issues with my test machine so > decided to restore a previous image. Ghost told me that all three of my > latest images were corrupt which rather surprised me. I decided > that it was > probably time I re-built the system anyway as it had become quite > cluttered > so did so. I have just tried to install Ghost and found that it won't run > setup for some reason. I decided to investigate upgrading Ghost or going > for Acronis True Image 11 Home. The reviews for both on Amazon are pretty > mixed ranging from excellent to rubbish, there doesn't seem to be a happy > medium. As a stop gap I am using DriveImageXML which is an open source > product; I've never had to recover a disc in anger but it seems > to work OK. > > Question - what does the team think of Acronis or Ghost? Should > I carry on > with DriveImageXML? I am running a bog standard XP Pro OS but intend to > make it dual boot with Ubuntu 7.1, but not until I have a good disc image > for if (when?) I mess it up <g>. > > Any comments gratefully received. > > John Weller > 01380 723235 > 07976 393631 > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] 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.
