Ghost 2001 Problem

[mozingod]

I'm trying to backup one of out WinNT member servers before upgrading it to 2000. I loaded Ghost 2001 on my workstation and the server, and made the TCP/IP peer to peer boot disks for each. I set my workstation as the master, and the server as the client. Problem is, when I go to save the server's hard drive to an image, I get the following error (#25030):

Error
NTFS Error: Error reading FILE_VOLUME MFT record
Error reading FILE_LOG MFT record

Internal Error 25030
An internal incosistency has been detected
If this problem persists, contact Symantec Suport....

I tried Symantec's site, but they basically said try scan disk/defrag (which didn't help), or upgrading to a newer version of the Ghost software. Does anyone know of a fix for this? There is one drive (40G) split in two, each partition being a basic NTFS disk. Thanks for any help.

Darrell Mozingo

 

[ReddLefty]

Make sure you have shutdown the system properly or NT leaves a dirty shutdown flag. There is a switch to override it if you check the help on the Ghost command... but, if I remember correctly, Ghost does not work on Server, only workstations, professionals and Win9x.

 

[mozingod]

It was shutdown properly. I'm going to try the flag to ignore NTFS fragmentation next time I get a chance to bring the server down, but I doubt it'll work. This is the software I was handed when I asked the corporate headquarter datacenter folks what to use when backing up the server. Apparently they use it all the time, so it must work...

Darrell Mozingo

 

[ReddLefty]

I've check the Symantec Site and they seem to mention that Windows NT Server is clonable, all depending on hardware you are using (RAID, SCSI or IDE). Unless you use RAID, it should work.

good luck!

 

[mozingod]

Yea, that's the thing, I'm not. It's just a Access database/application server, so it's pretty much just a normal (powerful) workstation using an IDE hard drive. This is starting to become quite a PITA...

Darrell Mozingo

 

[darenw]

One thing you may want to do is remove the hard drive that you want to clone and master slave it to another IDE drive. I have run into issues with NT Server using NTFS and ended up having to boot off of a CD with ghost then ghosting the drive that way.

 

[mozingod]

Yea, I'm starting to think that's what I'm going to end up having to do... thanks for the help guys.

Darrell Mozingo