Andrew
Member
Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
User status: Offline
|
What have you guys used?
I really just want to pop in a CD and let it run with very little user input. I have a test PC which i constantly fuck up  
|
Planty02
Member
Registered: 5th Mar 05
Location: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
User status: Offline
|
We use symantec ghost at work. Keep a clean image of the machine on an external hard drive then use a bootable CD with the ghost software. Once you've got your image stored, it takes about 5 minutes to set up then the software does the rest. We see some fairly good speeds from the externall HDD too 
|
Aaron
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
|
I just use RIS to be honest, it takes 15 minutes to re-do my test PC to a totally clean image.
However, one of my friends uses North Ghost and it takes about 3 minutes to restore the PC...but he has to keep the image file on a DVD/External HD. I dont like doing that, i like to keep it all on servers.
|
Planty02
Member
Registered: 5th Mar 05
Location: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
User status: Offline
|
If youre only going to use it on one machine you could run it from a second internal hard drive or even a partition if you have the spare capacity. The image is full size though so you would basically double your used space
|
Planty02
Member
Registered: 5th Mar 05
Location: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
I just use RIS to be honest, it takes 15 minutes to re-do my test PC to a totally clean image.
However, one of my friends uses North Ghost and it takes about 3 minutes to restore the PC...but he has to keep the image file on a DVD/External HD. I dont like doing that, i like to keep it all on servers.
Norton ghost can be done via server too if you have the software (we use this at work too), however, direct from DVD/HD is FAR quicker so it really depends how many machines youre doing in one hit
|
Aaron
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Planty02
quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
I just use RIS to be honest, it takes 15 minutes to re-do my test PC to a totally clean image.
However, one of my friends uses North Ghost and it takes about 3 minutes to restore the PC...but he has to keep the image file on a DVD/External HD. I dont like doing that, i like to keep it all on servers.
Norton ghost can be done via server too if you have the software (we use this at work too), however, direct from DVD/HD is FAR quicker so it really depends how many machines youre doing in one hit
Yeah i realise that, but RIS is free.
|
Planty02
Member
Registered: 5th Mar 05
Location: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
User status: Offline
|
fair enough
|
PhilC
Member
Registered: 21st Jan 06
Location: Lancs, UK
User status: Offline
|
Acronis, or HDClone
|
Andrew
Member
Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
User status: Offline
|
I've not got the resources for RIS at the moment, hence a test PC
|
Dan Lewis
Member
Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Leicestershire
User status: Offline
|
i use netrunna great piece of software, will even come and install and show you how to work the demo version. if for business use.
|
_Allan_
Member
Registered: 24th Mar 04
User status: Offline
|
I use Norton Ghost, not sure if it free or not but a boot disk one is available from torrents etc.. Can clone a 500GB drive in about 20-30 mins.
[Edited on 18-08-2008 by _Allan_]
|
