At 07:44 AM 2/8/2001 -0500, Frank R. Brown wrote:
>First off, thanks for everyone's suggestions.
>
>Since some of the machines I want to back up are laptops,
>the plan of adding a second hard drive to the machine and
>running ghost --- instant recovery by simply switching over
>to booting off the second drive --- doesn't seem practical.

Ghost runs from DOS. Boot your laptop (from a floppy) to your network, run
Ghost from the floppy and Ghost an image of the machine to a network drive.
An image is a discrete file that can be restored at a later time. The
restoration process is basically identical except that you ghost from the
image to disk.


>(In all my years of computing --- which pre-dates windows by
>several generations --- I have never seen a whole-machine
>restore succeed.

I do whole machine restorations on a nearly daily basis with Ghost, and I
can tell you it works every time.

>Let's say I have a laptop and use ghost to a network drive
>(or use ntbackup to a tape drive).  Let's say I lose my
>hard drive, and replace it, possibly with one of larger capacity.
>How do I do a whole-machine restore?

As per above, just restore from the image. The drive doesn't even need to
be formatted- ghost takes care of that.

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