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SYMANTEC GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1 - V1.0 Manual (189 pages)
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Table of Contents
Technical Support
4
Table of Contents
7
Chapter 1 Using Symantec Ghost as a Stand-Alone Program
13
About Ghost.exe
13
Using Ghost.exe on a Stand-Alone Computer
14
Starting Ghost.exe
15
Using Ghost.exe with a Mapped Network Drive
15
Establishing a Peer-To-Peer Connection with Ghost.exe
16
About Splitting Images in a Peer-To-Peer Operation
19
Creating a Backup Image File
19
Backing up a Hard Disk to an Image File
19
Backing up a Partition to an Image File
21
Restoring from an Image File
23
Restoring a Hard Disk from an Image File
23
Restoring a Partition from an Image File
25
Cloning Disks and Partitions
26
Cloning Disk to Disk
27
Cloning Partition to Partition
28
Verifying Integrity
30
Adding Switches to Your Ghost.exe Operation
30
Running Ghost32.Exe in Windows
31
Compatibility with Ghost.exe
32
Chapter 2 Symantec Ghost Support for Image Files and Disks
33
About Symantec Ghost Image Files
33
Image Files and Compression
34
Performance on a Network
34
Image Files and CRC32
35
Image Files and Volume Spanning
36
Limitations on the Image File Size
36
Size-Limited Image Files
36
Spanned Image Files
36
Spanning Across Multiple Volumes and Limiting Span Sizes
37
Restoring from a Spanned Image
38
Image Files and Tape Drives
38
Drives with Bitlocker Drive Encryption
39
Dynamic Disks in Windows Vista/Xp/2003/2000
39
Support for Disk Drive Overlays (DDO)
40
Hibernation and Swap Files
41
Backing up or Migrating a Server
42
Resolving SID and Configuration Issues
42
Chapter 3 Modifying Image File Contents with Ghost Explorer
43
Using Ghost Explorer
43
Viewing Image Files and Their Properties
44
Launching a File
45
Extracting a File or Directory from an Image File
46
Modifying Image Files
46
Listing the Contents of an Image File
47
About Image File Spans
47
Setting the Default Split Options
48
Compiling an Image File
48
Using Ghost Explorer from the Command Line
49
Using Ghost Explorer with Long File Names
50
Chapter 4 Running Deployanywhere from the Command Line
51
Evaluating the Target Volume
52
Retargeting the Image
53
Adding New Drivers to the Ghost Deploy Anywhere Driver Database
53
Chapter 5 Managing Partitions Using Gdisk
55
About Gdisk
55
Running Gdisk
56
Overview of the Main Command-Line Switches
57
Online Help for Command-Line Switches
58
Switches Common to All Gdisk Commands
58
Creating a Partition
61
Reinitializing the Master Boot Record
63
Reinitializing GPT Disks
64
Showing Information about Disks
64
Performing Multiple Gdisk Operations Using Batch Mode
65
Deleting and Wiping Your Disk
66
Wiping Host Protected Areas (HPA)/PARTIES
69
Confirming a Disk Wipe
70
Activating or Deactivating a Partition
71
Hiding or Unhiding a Partition
71
Modifying the Windows 2000/XP Boot Menu
72
Specifying the Boot.ini Path and File Name
73
Displaying the List of Current Boot Entries
73
Adding an Entry to Boot.ini
73
Removing an Entry from Boot.ini
76
Setting the Default Boot Option and Timeout
76
Support for Large Hard-Disks
76
Chapter 6 Manipulating Files and Directories Using Omnifs
79
About Omnifs
79
Omnifs Operating Environments
80
Using Omnifs
80
Access Method Switches
81
Accessing Files and Folders with Names that Contain Spaces
83
Listing Drive Identifiers
83
Omnifs Operations
84
Setting the Attribute for a File
84
Copying Files and Directories
85
Renaming Files and Folders
85
Deleting a File
86
Deleting a Folder
86
Listing a Folder
86
Listing All Volumes on a Computer
86
Listing the Commands
87
Displaying the Omnifs Version and Copyright
87
Creating a Directory
87
Using Omnifs to Recover Files
87
Using a Script File
89
Omnifs Scenarios
90
Using Omnifs from the Command Line
90
Using Omnifs with a Script File
90
Using Omnifs with a Batch File
90
Omnifs Error Handling
91
Correcting the Date and Time
91
Chapter 7 Editing Registry Keys and Values Using Ghregedit
93
About Ghregedit
93
Using Ghregedit
94
Chapter 8 Using Ghostcasting to Create and Restore Images
101
About Ghostcasting
101
Splitting Images in a Ghostcast Operation
102
Preparing for Ghostcasting
103
About Creating the Model Computer
103
Creating a Ghostcast Server
103
Starting a Ghostcast Session
104
Creating an Image File
105
Connecting a Computer to a Session
105
Restoring an Image File Onto Client Computers
106
Controlling the Ghostcast Session from the Server
108
Setting Auto Start Parameters
111
Setting the Data Transfer Mode
111
Controlling the Amount of Network Bandwidth Used
113
Viewing and Changing Ghostcast Server Session Options
114
Running Ghost.exe on a Client Computer
115
Chapter 9 Ghostcasting from the Command Line
117
About Running Ghostcast Server from the Command Line
117
Starting the Ghostcast Session
118
Ghostcast Server Command-Line Options
118
Command-Line Option Examples Using Ghostcast Server
119
Chapter 10 Ghostcasting and IP Addresses
123
About IP Addresses for Ghostcasting
123
Locally Specified IP Addresses
123
Examples of Wattcp.cfg Client Configuration Files
124
About Using BOOTP/DHCP to Assign IP Addresses
124
BOOTP/DHCP Automatically Defined IP Address
124
Appendix A Gdiskdisk-Wipespecifications.
125
About Gdisk Disk-Wipe Specifications
125
Clearing, Sanitizing, and Viewing Hard Disks
125
About Completeness of Coverage
127
Gdisk Disk-Wipe Specifications
125
Determining Disk Size
129
About Symantec Ghost Switches
131
Listing Command-Line Switches
132
Appendix B Command-Lineswitches.
131
Command-Line Switches
131
Command-Line Switches
132
Accessing Files
148
Using the Clone Switch
148
Defining the Type of Clone Command
149
Setting a Source for the Clone Switch
151
Setting a Destination for the Clone Switch
152
Setting a Destination Size for the Clone Switch
154
Examples of Clone Switch Usage
154
Batch File Example
156
Using the -CRC32 Switch
157
Examples of -CRC32 Usage
158
Files Not Checked with CRC
159
About Numbering the Virtual Partition
159
Ghost for Linux
161
Supported Configurations
161
Supported Linux Distributions for Cloning
164
Supported Linux Distributions for Running Ghost
165
Symantec Ghost Utility Support
165
Appendix C Ghost for Linux
167
Configuring Firewalls
167
Symantec Ghost Port Configuration
167
Appendix D Configuring Firewalls
171
Appendix E Troubleshooting
171
Ghost.exe Errors Messages
171
Troubleshooting
171
Ghost.exe Problems
172
Vista Volume Containing System Restore Points
173
Starting from a PXE Image on a Dell Dimension 8100 Computer
173
About Using Ghost with NTFS Files
173
Symantec Ghostcast Errors
175
Problems Running Symantec Ghost
177
Cloning Windows 2000/XP Computers
177
Vista Partition Restore
177
Joining Client Computers to Active Directory Domains
177
Symantec Ghost and Legacy Network Cards
177
Cannot Start from Drive a
178
Missing Hibernation File
178
Windows Blue Screen
178
About Cancelling a Ghost.exe Operation
179
Index
181
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