Topic: Norton Ghost - Question

[Hi]

Hi all

I have Norton ghost and i want to take a copy of my sme server BUT im not sure how to go about doing this, can anyone help/guide me please.

Im a novice and have tried searching in this list.

Thanks for everyone that helps me

Best Wishes

[John Crisp]

Lots of 'depends' here.

What version have you got ? Certainly 2003 works on linux partitions, but I am not sure about earlier versions.

Where are you going to ghost the image too ? Do you have a spare drive in the machine to ghost to ? If you have a second drive in the machine, why not just install the server with mirrored drives ?

For a straight ghost from one disk to another, you need a plain DOS boot disk with a copy of ghost.exe on it and boot from that. If you install Ghost 2003 for Windows on a client machine, there is a utility to create a DOS boot disk with ghost on it. You can then reboot your server with the floppy and ghost your drive.

If you want to do it over a network then you will need some dos network drivers to get the machine on the LAN.


There is plenty of documentation with Ghost.

Good luck.

B. Rgds
John

[Bill Pflaumer]

Personal Ghost 200x all work with linux partitions. If u have IDE drives it's easy (no drivers needed) but SCSI Drives need the SCSI Adapters DOS drivers install in the config.sys portion of the DOS boot disk.

Alls U need to do is practice on a different pc, do it a few times and U will be an expert before U know it

Bill

[Hi]

Hey Thanks guys sorry im forgot im making an image for another machine and using 2003.

Also thanks to Bill i am indeed using SCSI drives.

Again Thanks for both your help

[Erich Heidenreich]

I have used Norton Ghost 7.5 on Mandrake 7.1 and 8.1.  Only problem I have ran into was after restoring from the image sometimes LILO was broken and the system wouldn't boot.  I experimented with serverl images and different harddrives but couldn't narrow down what caused LILO to break.  I finally settled on if I can't get it to work 100% of the time then how do you fix the LILO.  The easiest solution I found was if you have a emergency boot disk is to boot from it and just simply type LILO again and it seems to repair what ever was wrong.  Another solution involved booting from a linux distribution I found on the web that fit on a self booting CD.  Overall I think Ghost is a great product.  I use it to clone 1500 computers every year.

I don't know if Ghost 2003 supports this featur but 7.5 does.  If the computer you have contains a CD-R drive you can ghost right to the drive.  It will even ask you for a boot disk incase you want the CD to be bootable.

Erich