Re: Ghosting Disks

[Steve Pardee <stevevp pacbell net>]

Art,

It has been a while since I remember hearing how much our license for
200 images cost.  It didn't seem like that much if I am not mistaken. 
You can find out though at:
http://www.storagesoft.com/products/imagecast/.  Let me know if you have
any more questions.

-Steve Pardee 

Art Ross wrote:
> 
> Steve Pardee wrote:
> 
> > Mark,
> >
> > I cannot guarantee ImageCast is going to work for you, but I have been using it
> > for over a year and if you get stuck, StorageSoft have a knowlege Base to help
> > and once you get the kinks out of it which depending on what you are doing you
> > may or may not experience, it just works.  The company I work for uses it as
> > the standard Imaging tool for both Windoze and Linux.  Let me know if you get
> > stuck.  I might have run across the same thing already.
> >
> > -Steve Pardee
> >
> > "Mark W. Knecht" wrote:
> >
> > > Brandon,
> > >    The original issue I had was that Norton Ghost didn't handle ghosting of
> > > my Linux partitions correctly. They wouldn't boot. I use system Commander
> > > 2K, and run DOS, Win ME & 2 versions of Linux. I need them all to work.
> > >
> > >    Really I was wondering if Linux didn't already have the tools built in to
> > > do this without extra software. I'm happy to put the disk in a special
> > > machine. It is not important in my case that the solution be network based.
> > >
> > >    The ImageCast suggestion is interesting, but leads me to wonder if I'm
> > > destined to fail as per my experience with Ghost?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
> > > [mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Brandon Caudle
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:54 AM
> > > To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > > Subject: Re: Ghosting Disks
> > >
> > > Norton does the same thing.
> > >
> > > Brandon Caudle
> > > --------------
> > > 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux)
> > >
> > > >From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward bright net>
> > > >Reply-To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > > >To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> > > >Subject: Re: Ghosting Disks
> > > >Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:48:38 -0400
> > > >
> > > >You may have more success using Image Cast 4.5 rather than Norton Ghost.
> > > >As far as where to put the images that all depends on how your network is
> > > >setup but Image Cast 4.5 has the ability to extract images across a network
> > > >directly onto the target drive.
> > > >I don't know about Norton Ghost so I can't say much on that subject.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > >From: "Mark W. Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>
> > > >To: "Redhat-Install-List (E-mail)" <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> > > >Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 4:38 PM
> > > >Subject: Ghosting Disks
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hello all,
> > > > >    I'm sort of wondering if a RH box might make a good platform for
> > > >ghosting
> > > > > a drive. I tried Norton Ghost and it didn't work correctly.
> > > > >
> > > > >    I've got 10 machines running in my lab, and I need a good way to get
> > > > > identical disk copies in each machine. Each disk has 4 OS's and multiple
> > > > > partitions on it. I'd like some strategy that was pretty independent of
> > > >me
> > > > > sitting there and doing something once I start. Can someone make some
> > > > > suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > >    I've never set up extra drives under Linux, so I'm going to need
> > > >pretty
> > > > > clear instructions, but I'm basically thinking about a machine with a
> > > >main
> > > > > system drive, a second drive that has the image I want to copy, and then
> > > > > another drive that gets the copy put on it.
> > > > >
> > > > >    How might I go about setting this up?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Mark
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> 
> Our department purchased Norton Ghost 2001 a few months ago to handling our lab
> imaging.  All lab computers are dual boot systems containing Windows 98 and RedHat
> Linux.  Windows 98 is imaged just fine but RH Linux yields a fatal boot error and
> we haven't been able to fix it.  The source drive containing the image is 8 GB and
> the targeted drive is 30 GB.  Are there some issues that we may be overlooking.
> Ghost images the Windows 98 partition identically, but the Linux partitions are
> resized to fit the entire 30 GB.  To simply experiment with this, we tried imaging
> onto an identically sized drive.  Still, the same problem occurs.
> 
> Unfortunately, we didn't realize this when we bought the Ghosting software.  Does
> anyone know how expensive ImageCast 4.5 is for a multiple machines?
>   Best Regards,
>   Art
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