what the hell?

[pontifex]

my boss wants me to do backup images of everyone's pcs. there's like 70 pcs and it can take 30 min to 4 hours depending on the pc. a did a few a couple months ago and thats the fastest and slowest time it took to do a pc.

you can't do anything on the pc while its imaging either, correct? so that means major downtime for the user when i do this...

 

[SirChadwick]

1 word for your boss - Veritas

 

[j00fek]

yeh alot of down time there.

id stay after work and suck up the OT and profit

 

[iamme]

what's the point of doing seperate images of everyone's PC? why not do a clean image of the PC and then just back up everyone's files?

are there important things on each PC that needs to be backed up?

 

[pontifex]

oh, and using Ghost...which means i have to install, reboot. create image. uninstall, reboot.

because we only have 1 license of ghost...

 

[j00fek]

Originally posted by: pontifex
oh, and using Ghost...which means i have to install, reboot. create image. uninstall, reboot.

because we only have 1 license of ghost...

bah

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: pontifex
oh, and using Ghost...which means i have to install, reboot. create image. uninstall, reboot.

because we only have 1 license of ghost...

that sounds ridiculously inefficient.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: iamme
what's the point of doing seperate images of everyone's PC? why not do a clean image of the PC and then just back up everyone's files?

are there important things on each PC that needs to be backed up?

well, not everyone has he same pc. we have a major mish-mash of pcs. i can thank my boss for that.

 

[Bartino]

well, better stop posting and get working

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: pontifex
oh, and using Ghost...which means i have to install, reboot. create image. uninstall, reboot.

because we only have 1 license of ghost...

that sounds ridiculously inefficient.

welcome to my job...
if you guys saw how this place is run, you would sh!t yourselves.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: pontifex
oh, and using Ghost...which means i have to install, reboot. create image. uninstall, reboot.

because we only have 1 license of ghost...

Jeebus. You should ask for a raise...

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: pontifex
oh, and using Ghost...which means i have to install, reboot. create image. uninstall, reboot.

because we only have 1 license of ghost...

Jeebus. You should ask for a raise...

i'm trying to find another job...

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: iamme
what's the point of doing seperate images of everyone's PC? why not do a clean image of the PC and then just back up everyone's files?

are there important things on each PC that needs to be backed up?

well, not everyone has he same pc. we have a major mish-mash of pcs. i can thank my boss for that.

i mean, if you don't mind me asking, what does your company do? are there unique applications on each PC that needs to be imaged? some kind of configurations that happen on some PCs and not others?

 

[neutralizer]

for your trouble.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: iamme
what's the point of doing seperate images of everyone's PC? why not do a clean image of the PC and then just back up everyone's files?

are there important things on each PC that needs to be backed up?

well, not everyone has he same pc. we have a major mish-mash of pcs. i can thank my boss for that.

i mean, if you don't mind me asking, what does your company do? are there unique applications on each PC that needs to be imaged? some kind of configurations that happen on some PCs and not others?

manufacturing company. some have unique apps but most don't. you can't apply one image to every pc out there anyway. they have different hardware.

trying to understand how my boss does what he does is a lesson in futility

 

[mcvickj]

Originally posted by: pontifex
oh, and using Ghost...which means i have to install, reboot. create image. uninstall, reboot.

because we only have 1 license of ghost...

That sounds like a nightmare. What are you using to dump the images to? If this is your only option here is what I would do.

Setup one machine with at least an 80+GB drive. Enough space to store the images. Install Ghost on this machine. Then pull the drive out of the employee machine and slave it up to the ghost machine. Then just dump the image from drive to drive. Might save you some time.

 

[squirrel dog]

His name Lumberg ??

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: Bartino
well, better stop posting and get working

qft. go back to work asap.

 

[MaxDepth]

Yikes! Hopefully you have some good reading material...

 

[drinkmorejava]

I haven't used ghost 9 in a while. But can't you boot from the cd and save it to a ghost cast server.

 

[Platypus]

Haha, sounds like a great infrastructure

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Platypus
Haha, sounds like a great infrastructure

i kid you not, you should see the server room. its a fvckin mess. there's cables all over the place. the cables that run into the routers are not labeled. their all tangled and just one big mass of cables.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: iamme
what's the point of doing seperate images of everyone's PC? why not do a clean image of the PC and then just back up everyone's files?

are there important things on each PC that needs to be backed up?

well, not everyone has he same pc. we have a major mish-mash of pcs. i can thank my boss for that.

Sounds like your boss doesn't know WTF he's doing.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: lokiju

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: iamme
what's the point of doing seperate images of everyone's PC? why not do a clean image of the PC and then just back up everyone's files?

are there important things on each PC that needs to be backed up?

well, not everyone has he same pc. we have a major mish-mash of pcs. i can thank my boss for that.

Sounds like your boss doesn't know WTF he's doing.

i don't know how many times i've thought that myself. maybe it woudln't be so bad if i had another person to help me out. right now its just me and my boss and he doesn't help out with any of the little things. quite honestly, i don't know wtf he does all day because half the time i don't even know where he is.

 

[FoBoT]

do it at night. just tell him you are going to work midnight to 7 am for the next couple of weeks to get it done