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Backing up!, GHOSTING, anyone do it?

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soulax

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Got about 10 PC's on my lan, 9 of them have OS's that are under a gig, then I got my main Win PC with a larger OS&APPs, as well as a large RAID1 setup for data (160 gigs, half used at this point).

I got a 200GB externel USB hard drive.

My plan is to dump an image of every machine onto the external backup drive (one time thing). My main Win PC has 2 drives, C: (OS & Apps) and F: 160GB data storage (which is mirrored). I want to dump an image of F: once a week, overwritting the old.

This way I have a backup of each PC incase any of the HD's crash (just re-ghost hardly change the configs on most of em anyway). And I have my RAID1 in case of HD failure, and I have a week of data for integrity.

My question is, I have Norton Ghost 2003, but im having a lot of trouble creating Mapped Drive boot disks, since pretty much every box has a differant NIC. Anyone know of any other software that can boot up off media (preferably a CD, but floppy is ok) And ghost a HD to a network share?
 
got an ftp server on that LAN? (or can you switch one in?)

g4u (Freeware) will also do local disks, dont let the unix part fool you, ghost uses(ed) DOS this is the same it will image any filesystem, but it employs NETBSD instead of DOS

happens to be included on the Ultimate Boot CD

however Ghost would be able to do what your asking, but there is a learning curve for the more advanced functionality
 
drive image 7.0
it's not free, but it allows an in-windows backup..
it's decently fast, boots from a cd to different nics (uses the microsoft PXE client or whatever it's called)
I've used alot of imagin products over the years..
I've never liked ghost, personally..
I absolutely loved imagecast, which doesn't exist anymore unless you have the exe code..
(grins)
 
Well im not looking for Windows only (got a linux box and 2 bsd's)

Ice Czar, that program looks perfect!!!
Im gona give that a shot...
 
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