Forcing Ghost 2003 to act like Ghost Corporate Edition!!!!

[mongo69]

Alright after getting all kinds of help from all of you I feel it is my turn to contribute something to the forum other than my sarcastic whit and humor. Here is something for you all that I have been working on for a little while now, I just finished it today.

If you have Ghost 2003 and hate having to walk back to restart the ghost slave server when you make or image a drive try this. After I created the two boot disks that I need to run ghost I recreated the Autoexe.bat file on the slave disk with the following.

@ECHO OFF
SET TZ=GHO+08:00
PROMPT $P$G
\NET\NETBIND.COM
MOUSE.COM
ECHO LOADING...
CD GHOST
:JUMP
GHOST.EXE -TCPS
GOTO JUMP

This will make the Ghost server restart itself after every image. This works great in my environment!!!

[Gollo]

I'm assuming this is NG enterprise right?

I've found that by having a share on my server and just backing up via the share works really good too. No reboots needed (other than the system I'm backing up or restoring!) good tip none the less

[kato2274]

I'm assuming this is NG enterprise right?

I've found that by having a share on my server and just backing up via the share works really good too. No reboots needed (other than the system I'm backing up or restoring!) good tip none the less

this is how we do it here at work. I always thought this was a little backwards because a multicast ghost cast server should take up far less network bandwidth. but for some reason when I was running ghost cast servers it was crippling the network . . . so I got onboard with the backup to network shares too.

[mongo69]

I'm assuming this is NG enterprise right?

I've found that by having a share on my server and just backing up via the share works really good too. No reboots needed (other than the system I'm backing up or restoring!) good tip none the less

NOPE. This is Norton Ghost 2003 not the Enterprise Edition. That's what makes this so Frigin cool. You force Ghost 2003 to run like Enterprise. No reboots of the server after imaging or serial numbers to apply, all automatic.