Norton Corporate Ghost 7.5 Help please!

[Fencer128]

Hi,

I'm currently involved in evaluating whether Norton Ghost Corporate version is right for our company.

As well as wanting to make image backups, we'd also like to make incremental backups - of among other things - samba shares.

Does anyone know if it is possible to make user specified (frequency, source, destination) incremental backups of directories on a samba share using ghost corporate 7.5?

Thanks for your time,

Andy

ps I've heard a new version of corporate ghost is almost here? Any details?

 

[duhh]

um... ghost is for making an image of a pc, not really for file backup. for that you would want to use arcserve or veritas or some such utill

 

[JackBurton]

Like duhh said, Ghost is imaging software NOT backup software.

 

[Fencer128]

Originally posted by: duhh
um... ghost is for making an image of a pc, not really for file backup. for that you would want to use arcserve or veritas or some such utill

Like duhh said, Ghost is imaging software NOT backup software.

Thanks. I realise ghost is imaging software. However, with the corporate version you can do incremental backups (which I take to mean updating the image of the HD as to its latest state without having to image it all). Since this to me is essentially a backup - and since the kind of backup I want is an image I can deploy off a server complete with the latest user data, it seems ok to me?

The only problem I have (presuming I've got the right interpretation so far) is that I want to know if I can do incremental backups of specific directories on a samba share at specified intervals.

Thanks,

Andy

 

[LiLithTecH]

Fencer128 wrote:

I want to know if I can do incremental backups of specific directories on a samba share at specified intervals.

No. Incremental backup does not allow you to CHOOSE SPECIFIC DIRECTORIES.
It basically does a SNAPSHOT of the Image. (be forwarned - IMAGES get HUGE when doing incremental backups)

 

[Fencer128]

Originally posted by: LiLithTecH
Fencer128 wrote:

I want to know if I can do incremental backups of specific directories on a samba share at specified intervals.

No. Incremental backup does not allow you to CHOOSE SPECIFIC DIRECTORIES.
It basically does a SNAPSHOT of the Image. (be forwarned - IMAGES get HUGE when doing incremental backups)

Thanks for your help. Could you elaborate a little please. What is the difference between a snapshot of an image and an image? Is the image a partition/collection of partitions?

Thanks for your time.

Cheers,

Andy