[dba-Tech] Drive Copying

I always liked Power Quest products too. But I think Symantec has put some
of the features of Drive Image into Ghost. Ghost 9 reads drive image format.

As far as difficulty using Ghost. Compared to most tape backup software it
is a breeze! I think the idea of it being difficult may arise from power
users making bootable cds with it and all sorts of stretching it out kind of
tasks.

John B. 

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 1:48 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying

Yes I've heard good reports of DriveImage but as you say it's now been
dismantled by Symantec. I suppose I might still be able to buy one from ebay
but I'm not going to get any support if I need it. But then perhaps I
wouldn't need it????

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit 
> Soobik
> Sent: 21 March 2005 18:26
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> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying
> 
> 
> Andy,
> I have jsut recently purchased Power Quest Drive Image 7.0 well, its 
> one of the last copies on the market, since Symantec ate Powerquest 
> and doesnt sell it any more, but its great, easy to use, you can 
> schedule backups, you can make the drive image of the drive taht has 
> windows from within windows just right for me.
> 
> Lembit
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy Lacey" <andy at minstersystems.co.uk>
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> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 4:28 PM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying
> 
> 
> > Afternoon folks
> >
> > Ok so I decided to beef up my backup capability (been using
> Disk2Disk
> > to backup essentials to CD), get a second HD, a USB 2.0
> caddy for it
> > and backup my entire disk to that. Was going to get Ghost 9
> to do it
> > but then read some
> > horrendous reviews of the product which aside from many and various 
> > problems agreed on only one thing - if you need tech support forget 
> > it. So I thought I'd better canvas opinion among the best-informed 
> > set of
> people I know -
> > yes
> > folks it's you. So who can recommend the greatest, most
> reliable, easiest
> > to
> > setup, easiest to use disk imaging software? One
> requirement I'd have
> > would
> > be to schedule overnight backups and not to have to come
> out of Windows to
> > do it.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Andy Lacey
> > http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
> >
> > PS If we've had this before I apologise but I couldn't find
> anything
> > in
> > the
> > archives.
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