Restoring from image over a network

[DVNT1]

The actual Ghosting part is te easiest. The toughest part is just getting the DOS based network setup. You will have different drivers for the various NICs you may use.

Basic steps include...
1) Use DOS based boot diskette to load network drivers and client software.
2) Map the NETWORK drive to the image location
3) Run Ghost to restore from image file
4) reboot to main OS

Running Ghost.exe /? (I believe) should show some sample command line switches to do common tasks such as restore from image.


You have a couple other options too...if the original OS image will fit to a CDROM then you could make a bootable CD that loads DOS drivers for the CDROM drive and contains ghost.exe. The autoexec.bat within the boot image could also contain the DOS commands to replace the hard drive with the image on the CD.

Also, you could add a partition to the hard drive and keep the ghost image local so it would make for much faster restore times.

EDIT: added comment - the Enterprise version of GHOST will be able to make boot disks for some common NICs. You will also have to have the Enterprise version (as opposed to the Personal version) if you intend to ghost from images across the network (or mapped drives).

[This message has been edited by DVNT1 (edited 05-30-2001).]

[mtpros]

Anyone know of a good site that has a walkthru of how to restore a system from a Ghost image over a network. If you have a walkthru of your own please post here. I work at a computer rental business for trade shows and productions. They are currently using the Compaq, Sony...restore CD's when the system comes back in to wipe out anything the client may have added to the machine while on site. I thought it would be much easier and faster to just load them up then Ghost an Image of each different machine to the server. Then use the image to restore when they arrived back from a show. I am having trouble locating info on how to do this though.

Thanks in advance http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif