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| Thread ID: 65943 | 2006-02-05 21:01:00 | Restoring from a backup | Greg (193) | Press F1 |
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| 427471 | 2006-02-08 06:31:00 | Acronis True Image has more features ie:, bootable cd with Acronis menu to allow browsing to the directory/partition holding the image, re-install in 5 minutes flat. I have Ghost 2003. It browses to the folder holding the image. It reinstalls in 5 minutes. Which, with both, all depends on the size of the image and how much compression you chose. |
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| 427472 | 2006-02-08 10:18:00 | So are you guys saying that if my main drive dies, I just slap in a new drive and transfer my Ghost or Acronis image to the new drive (after of course reinstalling my opsys onto the new drive), and all will be exactly as before, including apps and data and Windows settings? | Greg (193) | ||
| 427473 | 2006-02-08 10:56:00 | Yup, that's the theory and it should work. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 427474 | 2006-02-08 17:43:00 | (after of course reinstalling my opsys onto the new drive), and all will be exactly as before, including apps and data and Windows settings?You don't even need to reinstall the operating system first. Simply transfer the image to the new blank drive. Your restored system will be identical right down to your internet cookie collection from the point the image was created. The backup is quicker if you have the image stored on a hard drive rather than on DVD etc. It is also safer to have the images stored on a separate physical drive to your main one. It is important that you verify your backup image once it is created to make sure it is not corrupted. Quite easy to skip this step if you are busy, thinking she'll be right. I got caught out this way once when I tried to restore to my previous image only to find it was corrupt. You should still backup your personal files more regularly if they are important, because a backup image will only contain a snapshot of every file at that given moment. Another good feature of having backup images, is that the imaging program, Ghost for example, can open and view your backed up images in a file manager and you can retrieve individual files from the image. So if you accidently delete a file you can go and get another copy of it from the last backed up image. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 427475 | 2006-02-08 20:20:00 | Not really a "gotcha" but worth mentioning . "When you clone a Windows NT/2000/XP installation to many computers, the destination computers have the same SID and computer name as the source Windows installation . Because Windows NT/2000/XP networks use each computer's SID and computer name to uniquely identify the computer on the network, you must change the SID and computer name on each destination (client) computer after cloning . Overview of ways to change the SID after cloning * Ghost Walker Ghost Walker is a Ghost utility included in the corporate Ghost versions and Norton Ghost 2003 . Ghost Walker is a DOS program that allows you to change the SID and computer name at each client computer after cloning, that is, before restarting the computer into Windows . * Ghost Console The option SID Change is available on the Task you create in Ghost Console . When you use this option, Ghost remotely runs Ghost Walker at each client computer . That is, Ghost does not require that you visit each client computer to change the SID . * Microsoft's System Preparation Tool (SysPrep) Microsoft provides the SysPrep utility for preparing a source computer before creating an image of that computer . SysPrep allows you to change the SID, computer name, and other configuration information . When used on a Windows 2000/XP installation, SysPrep also prompts the client computers to rebuild their Plug and Play driver database . * Third party utilities . symantec . com/SUPPORT/ghost . nsf/pfdocs/1999050308324125" target="_blank">service1 . symantec . com . symantec . com/SUPPORT/ghost . nsf/docid/2000081610075225?Open&src=hot&docid=2000020908463825&nsf=ghost . nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=Norton%20Ghost&ver=2003&osv=&osv_lvl=&seg=hho" target="_blank">service1 . symantec . com |
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