Save drive image to network storage device

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Charlie

Is there any Vista compatible drive imaging software that will allow me to
save my local image to a network drive? With XP I had been using Norton
Ghost but they have no solution for Vista.
 
TrueImage is incredible, and so very affordable too! Ghost was an amazing
product back in the day, but hardware has changed and Norton didn't keep up.
I seriously considered purchasing Norton to make multiple workstations for
my father's business. I had a Ghost 2003 edition that didn't cut it because
of incompatibilities with the hardware. I assumed that the latest version
would resolve the issue, mainly SATA.

Luckily I ended up trusting the Newegg customer reviews. My perception of
the Ghost software was that it was leading, robust software which was in a
league of its own. However, the ratings were awful, and I looked into the
competition. TrueImage was cheap and downloadable right from Newegg, so I
saved both time and money. That stuff is amazing. You can prepare many
media types as boot media. From this, you can clone drives, get and send
image files to and from CD-R media, USB, network shares, DVD. I was just
impressed, because they made that media resemble the XP luna theme and it's
always easy to use.

In my case, I installed the software on my server, set the network boot
options, and with every system, I used boot from network option and it was
same as if I had put in the boot CD. I made an image from one computer,
which saved directly to a network share, and I then pulled that image from
several identical workstations (also with the boot from network ability) to
save time. This software is up to date, extra robust software, that easy to
use.

Only thing that I would comment about, is that if you choose to use the
network to do these things, you may need to type /SERVER/C or whatever your
shared folder may be. Most of the time the entire network was viewable, but
sometimes I gave it direction :D.

Good luck with it Charlie.. Oh .. and if it is not apparent, I am not being
payed to say such things, it's incredible software and I want to let it be
known.

Simon
 
Hi Simon,

Thanks for this info. I used Ghost until they required an upgrade for every
new OS. With 500 workstations it got too expensive. I will investigate
TrueImage.

I have been using Partimage which is a linux imaging program that works
GREAT on XP and 2000 but haven't tested it on Vista.

Vista does have its own deployment imaging but you need one CD per machine
which isn't fun.

Cheers,
Lara
 
Charlie said:
Is there any Vista compatible drive imaging software that will allow
me to save my local image to a network drive? With XP I had been using
Norton Ghost but they have no solution for Vista.
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Complete PC Backup works, there is a command line utility wbadmin.exe
which can save onto networked drives. From 3rd party utilities try Drive
Snapshot http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/home.htm - it's compatible wih
Vista and reliable small tool. I use it from years in all my systems and
recommend it.
 
I'm pretty sure that the drive imaging in Vista is only in in Ultimate and
Business editions, too.
 
One quick question. What version do you own? Is it like Ghost where you
have to license every computer you image?

Thanks
Lara
 
Yes. I work in a Domain so the only imaging I do would be with Business. I
don't image my home machines where I run Vista Home Premium.

Cheers,
Lara
 
It is not entirely Vista compliant. With my Vista Home Premium the True
Image (10.0.4940) 'explore' function, to look at the contents of an
archive, does not work. There are other reports of this and Acronis are
looking at it.
 
It is not entirely Vista compliant. With my Vista Home Premium the True
Image (10.0.4940) 'explore' function, to look at the contents of an
archive, does not work. There are other reports of this and Acronis are
looking at it.
 
Is there any Vista compatible driveimagingsoftware that will allow me to
save my local image to anetworkdrive? With XP I had been using NortonGhostbut they have no solution for Vista.
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Hi
This should work outside of the OS have a look at http://www.dustan.co.uk
there is some info that maybe of use, you will need to use the address
bar at the top because the site is new and is not indexed in google
yet.


Trev
 
Trev said:
Hi
This should work outside of the OS have a look at http://www.dustan.co.uk
there is some info that maybe of use, you will need to use the address
bar at the top because the site is new and is not indexed in google
yet.


Trev
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Acronis TrueImage version 10 works with Vista. There are 2 problems that
will be upsetting to Norton Ghost 10 users.

1) When you configure to validate after backup, TrueImage validates all
the backups on the backup location, even those previously validated

2) When you configure to take 4 backups, TrueImage does not delete the
oldest backup when you take the fifth backup.

In all cases, you will have to manually validate (if you want to validate
only the latest backup) and will have to manually delete unwanted backups.
This is true of the latest build 4,942.

Sent a message to Acronis and am still waiting for a reply.

Lou
 
Norton's Save and Restore 2.0 works fully with Vista, it's not as robust as
Ghost but works fine. The next version of Ghost will support Vista, but in
the mean time Save and Restore will work just fine..

Hope that helps..
 
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