Wayne Youngman said:
Cant agree there capability wise.
Oh, and why is that pray tell? missing features from GHOST?
Still doesnt do everything at the Win level.
Thats very desirable for unusual devices where if its usable
at the Win level, its automatically usable in the image app too.
Ghost still uses dos drivers for quite a bit of stuff and
that approach has its real downsides with unusual
devices which may not even have a dos driver available
at all and even with stuff that does have one, it may be
no joke getting it going with the dos driver available.
One example is ops over a lan where its no joke getting
the dos driver working when it isnt one of the builtin NIC
drivers and you arent pretty fluent with NDIS drivers etc.
The user interface still leaves quite a bit to be desired too.
The basic stuff isnt too bad now, but there is a still a real
problem with the use of terms which arent immediately
obvious. Ghost has always been unusual in that you can
clone drives and partitions over some pretty primitive
connections between PCs and it isnt at all obvious from
the user interface that doing that over a pair of NICs
with a crossover cable between them isnt the same
as doing ops over a LAN until the penny eventually drops.
Ghost still cant do incremental real time image backups.
V2i Protector leaves it for dead in that area and that
capability makes a hell of a difference if you arent
using real backup for personal desktop backup.
True Image is a rather immature product in comparison.
Tho its now the main competitor now that Symantec bought
up PowerQuest to produce Drive Image and V2i Protector.
Shouldnt have been allowed in my opinion but the yanks have
some rather silly ideas on that sort of elimination of competition IMO.
