ranj Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 Is it correct that ghost licences, you purchase once and then your covered, or is renewable every year. Thanks
Norphy Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 The licence is perpetual but there is a maintenance cost if you want to be able to contact Symantec support.
Face-Man Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 It's a one off cost but you can buy a yearly mainenance that mean you get tech support and upgrades
DMcCoy Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 one for each pc you *ever* use it on, client or not. However, there is an option on the ghost command line to remove the signature on the HDD, it also blanks the drive. This releases the license from that machine.
CyberNerd Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 Time to mention Ghost4Linux.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ yes it does windows drives, backs up/restores to/from ftp server or locally, no licensing. works for us.
Midget Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 What about imaging progs that don't have a per machine licence? do they exist?
PiqueABoo Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 Time to mention Ghost4Linux.. ..works for us How fast and how compressed (relative to the £££ ones)?
CyberNerd Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 compression: you can select between none,bzip2(good on a fast machine), gzip (like zip), or lzop (??). speed is determined by: network, disk speed, ftp server. The main point though is this is a bit for bit transfer - it won't just back up files, it will back up the entire disk including free space, therefore I assume it will be slower than the commercial tools (the zero's on a disk will compress, but it still reads them), the upside of this is that it will image any (disk) filesystem. I don't have any benchmark data, best to 'suck it and see'. I think of it as dd with some extras. also see G4U http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ edit: can cause problems if imaging using different drive sizes ! don't bother trying if you need to go from eg. 80.1gb disk to 80.0gb
Rammie Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 Have you considered using SynchroParc? http://www.crdp-reims.fr/synchroparc/ Unlike Ghost, this works as a site license and it doesn't need any resident software. Basically, it's a disk-clone tool, but once you've set it up, it will automatically fix the registry issues which normally prevent you cloning a disk (i.e. Windows licensing and network IDs). You can even clone onto a blank disk, provided you boot up from a CD such as BartCE and map into the network directory. It runs more or less as quick as your network will allow. Subsequent cloning passes just copy/delete any changes and run even quicker. Three caviats - it doesn't like saving the latest version of Sophos; as always with cloning, remember to delete and renew the WSUS ID (it doesn't fix this one automatically); and you need to brush up your technical French Rammie.
MK-2 Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 ranj: are you asking this because your finance dept or yourself have just been contacted saying that your leasing of Ghost has expired and if you don't pay up they will require the software back?
Midget Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 Have you considered using SynchroParc? http://www.crdp-reims.fr/synchroparc/ you need to brush up your technical French Rammie. This looks interesting, and here it is in franglish seems to be €392 (a assume its euros) for a site licence, which is cheap. have you tried this? does it work well?
Espada Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 we use Drive Image XML with Bart PE which works quite nicely.
Uraken Posted March 15, 2007 Posted March 15, 2007 whats the cost implication on drive image it can't be free surely but the website suggests it is?
ChrisN-0123 Posted March 15, 2007 Posted March 15, 2007 You can pay a one off cost but I recommend the Maintenance package where you get the major updates. I just upgraded to Ghost Solution suite v2.0.. that is Vista compatible for the future. Symantec normally release a major ghost update (v1 to v2 etc) every 1-2 years. Hope that helps! ~Chris
Oakie Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 I have had occassion to use Ghost for UNIX version for over 2 years. There seems to be an issue of ghost for Linux being accused of ripping off the codebase from Ghost for Unix. The author of Ghost for Unix makes a strong case of it, and the former author of Ghost for linux has left the scene. His product is now managed by another party. In any case, G4U works quite excellently across the network. It's a boot disk, will image NTFS without a hitch. It boots up, sets up the nic card, gets a DHCP address and then you can send or receive the image to or from an FTP server ( I use freeware FileZilla). Since it is unicasting and not multicasting, your speed at it's best when you do one machine at a time and gets progressively slower as you increase the number of machines accessing the network simultaneously. Of course, once you saturate the network, it gets unbearably slow. I have imaged 160 GB drives with 12 gigs of data in about 20 minutes on a 100 Mbit network with little or no traffic after hours. The major benefits of Ghost for UNIX is that it works on all file systems and it is 100% free. Might well be worth giving a try and adding to your IT arsenal.
laserblazer Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 I've just purchased Ghost Sol. Suite 2.5 and a bundle of client licences. I installed it on the server and then went through the rigmorole for getting the licence key. I got the keyfile and went through the registration procedure and Ghost Console now shows 70 clients registered but no server. I couldn't find any reference to the server licence key on the documentation so I contacted the suppliers. They told me that they had never sold a server licence and didn't believe that I would need one. Can anyone shed any light on this please?
DMcCoy Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 I've just purchased Ghost Sol. Suite 2.5 and a bundle of client licences. I installed it on the server and then went through the rigmorole for getting the licence key. I got the keyfile and went through the registration procedure and Ghost Console now shows 70 clients registered but no server. I couldn't find any reference to the server licence key on the documentation so I contacted the suppliers. They told me that they had never sold a server licence and didn't believe that I would need one. Can anyone shed any light on this please? There isn't one for the server, it's just needed for console clients. 1
laserblazer Posted November 5, 2008 Posted November 5, 2008 Excellent thanks. I was a bit worried that in 30 days it would stop working at the worst possible time.
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