[dba-Tech] Drive Copying

I had used Ghost some years ago and was not happy at all with it. therefore 
I was now glad to get one of the last Drive Image, which is easy to use (and 
that means something if I say so)

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:06 AM
Subject: RE: [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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit
>> Soobik
>> Sent: 21 March 2005 18:26
>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>> 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>
>> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
>> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>> 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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