This is How GHOST performs Windows NT Recovery,
Ghost 2001 runs from outside the Windows Operating system. When you install
Ghost, it creates a boot disk that contains variety of drivers including
Ghost program. The disk is designed to be universally compatible so it works
on most of the NT servers.
Once you boot that server with this functional disk, you can create an image
file of the disk or partition containing windows operating system and
applications. You could also tell the program to place that image ona disk,
CD or multiple CD's. It has different levels of compression levels built
within the program.
You could also make the CD where you place an image to be a bootable CD.
While restoring, you simply insert the CD into the drive and boot from it.
Youer server will automatically load ghost from the CD, and the files from
the Backup set will be available right aaway. This process also works from
outside windows, you don't have to go through installing operating system.
It completely restores your operating system including device drivers and
applications associated with it.
I hope this Helps.
Prasanna
-----Original Message-----
From: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WIndows NT Disaster Recovery
So should i ask WINNT folks to drop /winnt directory to D: instead C: ?
thats
what you mean ?
and thenrestore everything (BAckup , WINNT ,data to C: drive ?
shekhar
Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 04/23/2001
11:28:50
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Subject: Re: WIndows NT Disaster Recovery
Quoting Shekhar Dhotre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> Thanks for reply .
> So from your thoughts it seems to me that I cannot recover NT server
> using Ghost
> .
> I don't know How Veritas does it ,Nt admins installs NT from Ghost ,
> and
> Veritas administrator
> overwrites everything that is on NT BOX . (Including winnt.,registry
> ,boot.ini
> etc..) . No registry problems.
> We are switching from Veritas to Tivoli .. And NT admins are asking
> me to
> implement ant same method for WinNT DR .
You can use Ghost as a quick way to install the recovery system that
is used to run TSM restores of the production system. As far as I know,
that is the only way Ghost and TSM can cooperate in restoring a
Windows NT system. Sites that use Ghost this way generally put the
recovery system and its TSM client software in a separate partition
rather than non-standard folders in the production partition.
