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dbarton

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I use Drive Image 7 and it seems ok, but maybe time to upgrade.

It's hard to test how the restore part of a backup system works till it's too late for any problems.

I need to load AHCI drivers for my machine to see my SATA drives, so not quite sure how these all handle that to restore the image to a hard drive.

Is there a drive imaging program that easily allow me to create a custom boot CD that has these drivers added, or lets me load from floppy as it boots?
 
BESR 8 through 2010 (backup exec system restore) symantec.

they probably make a norton variant. it creates a vista PE iso unique to your system and lets you auto or manual add drivers. only thing that doesn't work is wifi - but really that would be painfully slow and unreliable.

and you must test your restore solution - get a spare drive for your (pc,laptop) and restore - otherwise your backup is not worth a hoot imo.
 
dbarton said:
Seems odd that Symantec has two different backup programs.
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Ghost came with the Symantec buying PowerQuest in 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(software)

BESR came with Symantec buying VERITAS in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_Exec

Since both product lines had deep customer pools, in other words a portion of the value of the assets which symantec paid for was the product lineup and their customers, it makes business sense why Symantec elected to continue both product lines after the respective aquisitions.
 
Idontcare said:
Ghost came with the Symantec buying PowerQuest in 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(software)
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I had to look it up to be sure on dates, but Symantec acquired Ghost in 1996.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(software)

When Symantec acquired Power Quest in 2003, they changed the whole technology to a Windows-based program, but still included the old non-Windows version of Ghost as part of the package.

So, if you consider "Ghost" to be the Windows-based version, then, yeah, Symantec acquired it in 2003. If you consider "Ghost" to be the original eight versions and included in their Windows-based package at first, then it's 1996.
 
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RebateMonger said:
So, if you consider "Ghost" to be the Windows-based version, then, yeah, Symantec acquired it in 2003. If you consider "Ghost" to be the original eight versions and included in their Windows-based package at first, then it's 1996.
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Which do you feel is relevant to the reason why Symantec offers two backup products today? The pre-powerquest stuff or the post-powerquest stuff?
 
because the veritas is/WAS good STUFF!

BESR is even an add-on to backup exec. its a forklift backup system that works great and fast.
 
I am still using Ghost 2003, the last DOS Ghost (pre-powerquest). If your BIOS sees the SATA hardrives (source and destination) you are golden. Works great with AHCI, work even better if you can switch to IDE .


Alex
 
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