Re: Symantec Ghost32 11.5
Nettie Rosier
All I want to do is a simple Hard drive clone on my Windows 2003 SBS. Last time I used this software is was a pain in the neck having to mount it on a different server and run a Ghost Cast. Is there a way to just clone the primary HD onto another one in the same way you can with Norton Ghost products?
I thought there was a version of the old ghost32.exe included with the Ghost Solution Suite products. This tool is a lot like the old DOS-based ghost.exe and will let you perform local disk-to-disk, disk-to-image, etc, clones. I don't know that it will clone from a booted system volume, though, so you may gave to use WinPE / BartPE to boot the machine to use the software but, assuming you do it should do what you want.
GHOST is not a solution for doing a hot/running image of the SBS. Symantec System Recovery 2011 is a good solution. It can backup the entire system and then restore it to different hardware. Convert to a VM and it also makes a great general backup solution hot/running if tape is not used. Free eval here Sysetm Recovery Overview Perhpas not teh one step you asked for but generally pretty quick and easy
Does anyone know where I can obtain a version of Ghost for QNX? Or does it run from a DOS disk or something?
Further, are there CDROM R/W drives and drivers available for QNX 4.25 ? I need something to put the images on, assuming I can actually create them.
I would suggest that you want to make backups in the more traditional unix style but there are even issues with that. You can backup the files, but making the replacement system bootable take a couple additional step because the /.boot files (and a couple others) are special.
You can use dd as well, the ghost utility is a clonning tool from symantech, you can download it from their home page, the current version is 7.0 and support lots of file systems, and you can resize the partition on the fly if you want, you need to make a winBug boot disk and run the ghost7.exe from it.
Hi. You have a couple of options for imaging the system. Symantec Ghost and PowerQuest ImageCenter (formerly DriveImage) run in DOS and can image the QNX filesystem. There is also a free GPL-licensed tool called Partimage, I have not used Partimage, but I know it supports supports a LOT of filesystems.
I have used ImageCenter and Ghost both to image QNX systems on Beckhoff, Dell, and IBM systems and they work great. An image will work well as a backup tool, but be aware that if you change the hardware at all, the image may or may not work when restored to the system. Hope this helps.