Hi, As James, said, Ghost is useful for duplicating entire hard disks. We use it as a method of backing up systems once they've been configured and tuned up. After the system is backed up using ghost, we burn a couple of CD-ROMS. One CD goes to the customer and the other is kept at our shop for a spare. We've had customers totally trash their systems, and, using this CD, along with a boot disk with the proper CD-Rom drivers, we can have the customer's system back up and running in fairly short order. Beats the heck out of reformatting the customer's hard drive and re-installing everything from scratch. We're talking minutes of work instead of hours or even days. Cheers! Tom At 08:34 PM 5/22/99 -0500, you wrote: > Ghost is a program used to duplicate ENTIRE HARD DISKS. It is useful when >there is a standard of software/hardware and you wish to install the exact >same software in exactly the same physical disk location and with exactly >the same accounts. > While it can be useful in building one or two machines every few months or >so, its real value comes in building tens or hundreds of computers in a >short time span (usually 10-15 minutes per machine). > The alternative is to install (or re-install) the base OS (Windows 95, 98 >or NT), then install the upgrades to drivers, service packs, hot fixes, >etc., and finally install *and configure* the software. Ghost lets you do >all of this by copying a sector-for-sector image of a source hard disk, then >allowing you to replicate that image to any number of destination machines. > >jb - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
