Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations TouchToneTommy on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
doing a ghost image on win nt
- Thread starter nutty1002
- Start date
Is it a hardware or software RAID??
With Hardware, ghost (& in fact any software) will only see one physical drive. With software (ie through Disk Administrator) you need only ghost the 1 drive.
We have Compaq ProLiant servers running hardware RAID and use ghost all the time. (We run 11 identical Terminal servers, rebuild with ghost then change registry as needed).
As long as you have a separate disk/partition/network share to cump the image to, it should be fine.
If doing to local disk/partition just boot to DOS with a bootable floppy, run ghost.exe from the floppy, follow the menus, and it's all done.
*Note - Ghost cannot dump to the source partition.
If using network share, the boot disk will need network drivers. If doing it this way, you can save space on the floppy by running ghost.exe from the network share.
With Hardware, ghost (& in fact any software) will only see one physical drive. With software (ie through Disk Administrator) you need only ghost the 1 drive.
We have Compaq ProLiant servers running hardware RAID and use ghost all the time. (We run 11 identical Terminal servers, rebuild with ghost then change registry as needed).
As long as you have a separate disk/partition/network share to cump the image to, it should be fine.
If doing to local disk/partition just boot to DOS with a bootable floppy, run ghost.exe from the floppy, follow the menus, and it's all done.
*Note - Ghost cannot dump to the source partition.
If using network share, the boot disk will need network drivers. If doing it this way, you can save space on the floppy by running ghost.exe from the network share.
- Thread starter
- #3
i just found an artice from symantec that Ghost is not compatible with RAID. It will work if you load the appropriate DOS ASPI drivers. The article can be found at
so how about do u do ghost on RAID1
so how about do u do ghost on RAID1
Guest_imported
New member
- Jan 1, 1970
- 0
As far as I have been able to determine there is NO way to ghost NT server, period.
On the other hand, if you had Netware you could use ServerMajic by PowerQuest.
Sounds like a rebuild
Good luck
On the other hand, if you had Netware you could use ServerMajic by PowerQuest.
Sounds like a rebuild
Good luck
HI.
If this is a software mirror, you should follow these steps:
* Verify that you have a good backup.
* Break mirror of drive C.
* Reboot the server to complete the bread mirror proccess.
* Install another disk where the ghost image will be saved to. This drive can be formatted with FAT or FAT32 (if booting with Win98 diskette).
* Boot using a simple DOS/Win9x boot disk. Do not load SCSI and other drivers if not needed.
* Ghost drive C (partition to image).
* Remove the image hard drive.
* Reboot OS.
* Establish mirror again (you'll need to delete the 2nd copy of the mirror first).
* Reboot.
Bye
Yizhar Hurwitz
If this is a software mirror, you should follow these steps:
* Verify that you have a good backup.
* Break mirror of drive C.
* Reboot the server to complete the bread mirror proccess.
* Install another disk where the ghost image will be saved to. This drive can be formatted with FAT or FAT32 (if booting with Win98 diskette).
* Boot using a simple DOS/Win9x boot disk. Do not load SCSI and other drivers if not needed.
* Ghost drive C (partition to image).
* Remove the image hard drive.
* Reboot OS.
* Establish mirror again (you'll need to delete the 2nd copy of the mirror first).
* Reboot.
Bye
Yizhar Hurwitz
How would you boot a system with RAID 1 so that a ghost boot floppy can be used. Would you need to load the raid controller drivers in the ghost boot floppy? When I have attempted this the raid controller loads up and sees the drives but then the system stops and does not respond to the ghost boot disk.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Any help would be greatly appreciated
OZDOG
If I understand you correctly, you are booting your server from a DOS floppy and creating an image of the boot partition and then applying it to another server that has the same hardware config (RAID 5 - hardware) but no OS on it? When you do this, do you config the partitions first with the Compaq utilities?
If I understand you correctly, you are booting your server from a DOS floppy and creating an image of the boot partition and then applying it to another server that has the same hardware config (RAID 5 - hardware) but no OS on it? When you do this, do you config the partitions first with the Compaq utilities?
I am trying to boot from a DOS floppy to create an image of the entire drive(s). The site uses raid 1. The only reason for the image is for disaster recovery,. We have a hot standby server with the same h/w config and want to be able to image it if we ever need to.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question
- Locked
- Question
- Locked
- Question