At 11/7/98 02:40 PM , zajil wrote:
>
>Who can tell me what is Symantec's Ghost software? and what are the
>functions? is it a DOS or a Windows based package?
>

It is DOS based with a GUI front end.  It has several ways to copy an
entire disk, partitions and all.  It is designed to restore a single disk
image on many machines, such as new identical machines, or restoring a
standard image for a classroom.  It copy from a network, a local disk,
through a parallel port, or CDROM.  It is designed to operate from a
bootable floppy.  What I like is that it is versatile in the ways it
controls it's compression.  From  High to Low or none. It compresses on the
fly as it copies. I found that I could use the Low compression and the
transport time through my parallel port to a "DataTank" mounted hard drive
was extremely fast.  To a network drive, I found that it was fastest with
No compression.

I personally only wanted to use the Ghost software for backup.

Re your other note (Symantec won't sell Ghost Software): Can Laplink be
used to copy from local disk to local disk?  The drivers that the DataTank
uses makes the parallel port drives look like local drives (similar to a
parallel port Zip drive.




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