Who here has actually used IBMs backup s/ware to Restore?

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T41mbi · #1 Post by **T41mbi** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 2:53 am

I currently am using Norton Ghost 2003 and am not too happy with it. I want to start using different software, my first choice would be IBM's but I remember using it once to backup my drive, and then one day decided to format and restore to my previous backup and left it over night to restore

I came back in the morning it was still going...

Left it for a few more hours and it was still copying files, 1 by 1.

I called IBM they said we dont support software.

Just wondeirng has this problem been fixed?

Or is still a bit dodgy.

verktyg · #2 Post by **verktyg** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:52 am

What kind of problems are you having with Ghost 2003?

Symantec bought Power Quest and they have a "new" version of Norton Ghost - 9.0. There are 2 CDs in the package: a copy of Ghost 2003 and a copy of Power Quest's Disk Image renamed to Ghost 9.0.

I use Ghost 2003 to backup to a Seagate DDS external SCSI tape deck. It's been working well for me. I also use it to backup to 2nd HDDs in several of my PCs and tried it once with my DVD drive.

Ghost 9.0/Drive Image will backup to USB drives, CDRs, DVDRs, and other media except tape drives.

There's also Acronis and Danse Retrospect and others.

T41mbi · #3 Post by **T41mbi** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:46 am

I dont like how it requires Norton Ghost to be running in the background (mandatory) it is a resource hog and slows down my PC performance

Acronis is worth considering, but before i spend anymore money i just wanna see if any improvements have been made to R&R

selvan777 · #4 Post by **selvan777** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:33 am

I used Rapid Restore successfully years ago. I then replaced it with Norton Ghost and used it successfully many a times too.

But I'm now using Acronis True Image and love it.

All kinds of hard drive image backup software: from online system disk backup program to disk cloning with operation system and bare-metal restore solution
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/pr ... trueimage/

verktyg · #5 Post by **verktyg** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:18 am

T41mbi wrote:I dont like how it requires Norton Ghost to be running in the background (mandatory) it is a resource hog and slows down my PC performance

Hmm. I have Ghost installed on one PC but not running or doing anything else. Since I'm using a SCSI tape drive most of the time, I run ghost from a floppy.

Vaporware · #6 Post by **Vaporware** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:13 pm

I used the IBM stuff a couple of years ago with disastrous results since then I have been using Arconis True Image and have never ever looked back.

-Vapor

dvorak · #7 Post by **dvorak** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:47 am

Why not use an older version of Ghost?
I did it, booted up with the CD, did an image and copied it to another partition, finished.

I do have Ghost 9 installed, but didn't fancy the resource hogging either, turned it off.

ibmuser · #8 Post by **ibmuser** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:51 am

I've restored several times - most recently just a few weeks back.
I use IBM R&R - no problems whatsoever.

verktyg · #9 Post by **verktyg** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:14 pm

dvorak wrote:Why not use an older version of Ghost?
I did it, booted up with the CD, did an image and copied it to another partition, finished.

I do have Ghost 9 installed, but didn't fancy the resource hogging either, turned it off.

Symantec/Norton Ghost 9 is actually PowerQuest's DriveImage 9 which works a little differently than the previous version of the real Ghost. Symantec bought PQ and all of their programs, Partition Magic, Drive Image and so on.

Some packages of Ghost 9 also contain a Ghost 2003 CD. I have several versions of DriveImage and never liked them because I back up to SCSI tape drives which aren't supported.

dvorak · #10 Post by **dvorak** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:15 am

verktyg wrote:Symantec/Norton Ghost 9 is actually PowerQuest's DriveImage 9 which works a little differently than the previous version of the real Ghost. Symantec bought PQ and all of their programs, Partition Magic, Drive Image and so on.

I'm aware of the purchase, but that's irrelevant.

The point still remains, why not use a true cloning system.

I've never seen the point of the hidden partition, what good is a clean Windows, of course unless all you do is use Wordpad.
I'd suggest install some software, update everything, make a clone with an outside program (with a bootdisk) and save it to another small partition. Then just carry the same bootdisk with you, or better yet, somehow make the small partition bootable and ready with cloning tools.

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