Symantec Ghost question

[thirdlegstump]

Say I have a system without a floppy drive but it has a DVDRW...

I want to create an image of my XP installation and be able to fully recover it via a bootable DVDR which would contain the image file as well as the files required for a bootable disk and a recovery....

Is this possible and what are the steps necessary?

 

[nineball9]

I've never actually tried it, but it had better work!
Falcon Northwest burns and ships a Norton Ghost image of the HD for each PC they configure. They burn it to a DVD and it is bootable though Norton Ghost itself is not included. (Note: the Ghost image is not just a WinXP image - it's the entire disk(s) as shipped. Falcon Northwest ships the original Windows install CD as well.) According to Falcon, the Ghost image can also restore the image to a single disk in a RAID 0 configuration should the other disk fail.

Then again, I've never actually tried it!

Personally, I've been thinking of purchasing Norton Ghost and a large 3rd HD and creating backup images on the 3rd drive. Perhaps after the holidays...


Good luck.

 

[Sid59]

just make the dvd bootable. it's that easy.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Sounds like I'm going to be going through several practice dvds....arggh. But since Falcon is doing is, now I know it's possible. Yea, what I wanted to do was Ghost an entire installation including applications that I installed cleanly after doing a perfect XP installation.

 

[Trashman]

When image is saved to disk (CD or DVD), it will include DOS drivers for restoring image...you shouldn't have any problems.

 

[thirdlegstump]

ok, now say for example, I do not want a copy of Ghost installed on the partition residing on the recovery image...how would I do that?

 

[Trashman]

all you need is a Ghost boot disk ( bootable dvd or cd in your case) , so however you can create a bootdisk without installing on that partition thats fine.
You should be able to run Ghost in DOS then save image to DVD (Ghost 2003 added DVD support).

 

[thirdlegstump]

So either way I'm going to have to have 2 disks? One as a boot, one for the image? Or can I do it all in one shot like....
during the creation of a boot disk to a DVD-R, create the C:\ image on to the same DVD-R thus having a disk capable of booting as well as restoring all in one shot?

Last question would be..would Ghost be able to create a user friendly recovery disk? As in, insert CD, hit any key to recover....

That, would rule.

 

[Sid59]

all in one shot. the boot image for thedvd will take like 1.44 mbs or so.

 

[thirdlegstump]

That is sweetness. I'll go test this out tonight. THanks all!

 

[thirdlegstump]

b

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: deathkoba
b

b? bump?

did it work?

 

[thirdlegstump]

nah not yet. I haven't had enough time on it to figure it out. The biggest problem would be which drive is the CD drive when there are multiple partitions and more than 1 optical drive...which shouldn't be too hard but I am a DOS-IDIOT.