FAR Ghost 9.0 at Outpost

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Ghost 9.0 seems easy for n00bs like me.

Is Acronis True Image just as easy for n00bs?

Probably even easier

 

[straubs]

Go with Acronis. It's about 4x faster at creating images as well. I used PowerQuest Drive Image right up to version 7. Tried version 7 and thought "Wow they killed this thing DEAD!" How ironic that soon afterwards, Symantec bought them out and decided to use Drive Image instead of their own Ghost.

The sad thing is that a lot of Ghost users (professional IT users, not home users) just blindly get 9.0 because it's the next version and have NO CLUE what they are getting into.

Can't believe no one has posted Radified's Guide To Ghost complete with a preface on why Ghost 9.0 isn't really ghost and a link to their forums on why it's so ill-received.

 

[Concillian]

Can I use Ghost 9 to image a linux drive if I add a drive to run windows on so that Ghost would run?

 

[SUOrangeman]

FYI, the version of Ghost 9 I've seen actually comes with Ghost 8. Can the new version be that good if the old version still ships with it?

-SUO

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
FYI, the version of Ghost 9 I've seen actually comes with Ghost 8. Can the new version be that good if the old version still ships with it?

Ghost 9 ships with Ghost 2003 (Version 2), which corresponds to 7.5.

 

[russw]

Thanks tcsenter for anticipating my question as to what ghost 2003 equated to. I used Drive Image long before Ghost came along. Each required some adaptation time. ;^)

...russ

 

[Tegeril]

Originally posted by: GAZZA
I have used the new 9.0 and am getting ready to go back to the old dos boot menu instead with ghost 8.0.
Sure it's nice to use in a windows enviroment but if you only have one partition on your hard drive with no other to image to, it will image fine to the existing hard drive but it Will Not be able to restore that image from the same place due to image being located on the drive that needs restoring back to, even though it was able to create the image on the same drive !
And my god is it freakin slow, took over 12 hours to restore a 12gig image file.
I once restored a nice AlienWare top of the range laptop with 2x60g 7200 drives in raid 0 with a dvd image and it took less than 6 mins and that was using ghost 8.0.

I'm curious as to the practicality of backing up a drive onto itself (particularly in your case, where you didn't even create a separate partition). Also curious as to why you think a drive that needs to read at one location, decompress, and copy to another location on the same drive would perform faster than a DVD being read at 16x (22,000KB/sec)

 

[sapiens74]

Ghost 9 is great, now that they use Drive Image software from PowerQuest (company they bought)

 

[luddy1]

I prefer Powerquest v2iProtector Desktop 2.01.

 

[tcsenter]

Attention all Ghost fans! Heads up:

SYMANTEC GHOST SOLUTION SUITE VAR MEDIA PACK: Part No#: 701120 - $8.15 plus shipping (and tax where applicable)

I ordered this from Page Computers and they shipped it (I didn't purchase any licenses with it, as required by Symantec). This contains Ghost Corporate Version 8.2, NO ACTIVATION REQUIRED. The full suite also contains many features never before available in Ghost, aimed at system builders, VARs, OEMs, and network administrators.

To install only Ghost 8.2, from the Autorun menu, select "Install Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition", then select "Install Standard Tools" from the next menu. The full Ghost Suite will install only on corporate or enterprise platforms (e.g. XP Professional or Windows 2000, NOT XP Home). Installing only Ghost 8.2 as described will install on XP Home as well.

 

[brucekatz]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Attention all Ghost fans! Heads up:

SYMANTEC GHOST SOLUTION SUITE VAR MEDIA PACK: Part No#: 701120 - $8.15 plus shipping (and tax where applicable)

I ordered this from Page Computers and they shipped it (I didn't purchase any licenses with it, as required by Symantec). This contains Ghost Corporate Version 8.2, NO ACTIVATION REQUIRED. The full suite also contains many features never before available in Ghost, aimed at system builders, VARs, OEMs, and network administrators.

To install only Ghost 8.2, from the Autorun menu, select "Install Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition", then select "Install Standard Tools" from the next menu. The full Ghost Suite will install only on corporate or enterprise platforms (e.g. XP Professional or Windows 2000, NOT XP Home). Installing only Ghost 8.2 as described will install on XP Home as well.

"I didn't purchase any licenses with it, as required by Symantec."

Can you do that?

 

[GAZZA]

Originally posted by: Tegeril

Originally posted by: GAZZA
I have used the new 9.0 and am getting ready to go back to the old dos boot menu instead with ghost 8.0.
Sure it's nice to use in a windows enviroment but if you only have one partition on your hard drive with no other to image to, it will image fine to the existing hard drive but it Will Not be able to restore that image from the same place due to image being located on the drive that needs restoring back to, even though it was able to create the image on the same drive !
And my god is it freakin slow, took over 12 hours to restore a 12gig image file.
I once restored a nice AlienWare top of the range laptop with 2x60g 7200 drives in raid 0 with a dvd image and it took less than 6 mins and that was using ghost 8.0.

I'm curious as to the practicality of backing up a drive onto itself (particularly in your case, where you didn't even create a separate partition). Also curious as to why you think a drive that needs to read at one location, decompress, and copy to another location on the same drive would perform faster than a DVD being read at 16x (22,000KB/sec)

No dvd burner installed !
Cdrw not even worth it considering the size of the image to create.
Only one partition with on backup hard drive/tape drive.
This was not my own pc !
Basically if your use to Ghost 8, then stick with it. We all like to think the newer version is better.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: brucekatz
"I didn't purchase any licenses with it, as required by Symantec."

Can you do that?

Umm...I did and Page shipped it. So yes, it appears I "can".

Hush now.

 

[phils725]

Now states $49.99AR