About Creating An Image; Create Image Options - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - V1 Manual

About creating an image

Create Image options

Image Multicasting options (continued)
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Option
Timeout
You can create disk images and backup images with the Create Image task.
See "Deployment image types"
See "About deployment tasks and jobs"
You must create a deployment task before you can run it.
See "Creating a deployment task"
You can deploy disk images to multiple computers. This process removes all of
the Windows operating system settings from any captured images. Your computer
restarts multiple times during this process.
See "Creating and deploying an image"
Backup images retain the data and software of a specific computer. A backup
image contains a snapshot of the hard disk of a computer. A backup image can be
restored only to the computer that it was captured from. The image has the same
name as the computer from which it was captured.
By default, the first disk in the system is imaged using Ghost in optimize for speed
mode. Other imaging tools are also available.
You can choose several options while creating this task.
See "Create Image options"
You can also choose advanced imaging options for this task.
See "Advanced Create Image options"
You can configure the following options while creating the Create Image task.
See "About creating an image"
You can also set up advanced imaging options for this task.
See "Advanced Create Image options"
Description
The maximum number of seconds to wait for the specified
number of clients to join the group. If this number is reached,
your images are deployed separately.
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