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Another Ghost 2003 question - Simple
I'm brand new to Ghost 2003 and after a successful clone on my brothers
computer (bigger hard drive) I thought it would make a good backup for my new Win2K machine. What I want to do sounds simple but fails. This machine is tied to a router/switcher along with a FreeBSD server and another smp FreeBSD/Win98 box. My only cd burner is at the server. I have created spanned image files of the boot partition to another partition on the Win2K box and ftp'd those to the server. Used mkisofs to create a iso file of each image file and burned to both a cdr and a cdrw. Problem is, back at the 2000 box, Ghost says the files were not created by Ghost. Does any kind soul know a solution to this or am I p...... against the tide? Thanks for reading this, Tom |
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In what words did you ask Ghost to use image files?
If you write them down for us, we might be able to help you. Boot with DOS floppy and CDROM support. Can you see your files on CDROM by typing DIR D: (if D: is your CDROM drive)? Then, use GHOST.EXE and restore your drive using files stored on D: drive and not CDROM. But, why don't you just image and restore directly from your server network share? It is a waste of time using second partition, ftp-ing, burning, reading from multiple CDs etc... And btw, DVDs are much more economical than CD-R(W) disks nowadays. "Tom Jackson" wrote in message ... I'm brand new to Ghost 2003 and after a successful clone on my brothers computer (bigger hard drive) I thought it would make a good backup for my new Win2K machine. What I want to do sounds simple but fails. This machine is tied to a router/switcher along with a FreeBSD server and another smp FreeBSD/Win98 box. My only cd burner is at the server. I have created spanned image files of the boot partition to another partition on the Win2K box and ftp'd those to the server. Used mkisofs to create a iso file of each image file and burned to both a cdr and a cdrw. Problem is, back at the 2000 box, Ghost says the files were not created by Ghost. Does any kind soul know a solution to this or am I p...... against the tide? Thanks for reading this, Tom |
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Go to DOS Ghost with floppy, check off spanning in options, then Local-
Check-Image File. In disk image file name box, change from A: drive to Icon for CDROM drive; following the icon says @CD-R1 LITEON CD-ROM LTN526S CD Rom (all other options are my hd partitions and A: drive). When I click that icon, the filename that appears is Ghost CD/DVD Image. I click open, it shows a Error accessing CD/DVD disk (1972). In the box: This disc was not created by Norton Ghost. Retry button nada and cancel gives yet another box, the Error box with Error accessing file, please check media and retry (566). I can check all image files still on hd okay. On 2004-07-29, peterfoxghost wrote: In what words did you ask Ghost to use image files? If you write them down for us, we might be able to help you. Boot with DOS floppy and CDROM support. Can you see your files on CDROM by typing DIR D: (if D: is your CDROM drive)? Then, use GHOST.EXE and restore your drive using files stored on D: drive and not CDROM. But, why don't you just image and restore directly from your server network share? It is a waste of time using second partition, ftp-ing, burning, reading from multiple CDs etc... And btw, DVDs are much more economical than CD-R(W) disks nowadays. I don't know how I could interact with my FreeBSD server from a Win2K box. Could run Samba on the server but rather not. Can you explain what you had in mind. Believe me, I don't relish all the mechanics of getting that cdr/cdrw back to the win2k box. I have plans for a dvd burner but spanning several (4) disc is no problem. I hope I have been clear about this. Really don't want to buy a burner for the win2k box, but I may have to. I appreciate the help Tom "Tom Jackson" wrote in message ... I'm brand new to Ghost 2003 and after a successful clone on my brothers computer (bigger hard drive) I thought it would make a good backup for my new Win2K machine. What I want to do sounds simple but fails. This machine is tied to a router/switcher along with a FreeBSD server and another smp FreeBSD/Win98 box. My only cd burner is at the server. I have created spanned image files of the boot partition to another partition on the Win2K box and ftp'd those to the server. Used mkisofs to create a iso file of each image file and burned to both a cdr and a cdrw. Problem is, back at the 2000 box, Ghost says the files were not created by Ghost. Does any kind soul know a solution to this or am I p...... against the tide? Thanks for reading this, Tom |
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Thank you for posting your conversation with Ghost.
Yes, that confirms what I thought. You should not check via @CD-R1 but using a drive letter assigned from CDROM driver in config.sys and MSCDEX in autoexec.bat. The reason is @CD-R mode is only for CDs written directly by Ghost (packet written in proprietary mode). Thus it fails. "Tom Jackson" wrote in message ... Go to DOS Ghost with floppy, check off spanning in options, then Local- Check-Image File. In disk image file name box, change from A: drive to Icon for CDROM drive; following the icon says @CD-R1 LITEON CD-ROM LTN526S CD Rom (all other options are my hd partitions and A: drive). When I click that icon, the filename that appears is Ghost CD/DVD Image. I click open, it shows a Error accessing CD/DVD disk (1972). In the box: This disc was not created by Norton Ghost. Retry button nada and cancel gives yet another box, the Error box with Error accessing file, please check media and retry (566). I can check all image files still on hd okay. On 2004-07-29, peterfoxghost wrote: In what words did you ask Ghost to use image files? If you write them down for us, we might be able to help you. Boot with DOS floppy and CDROM support. Can you see your files on CDROM by typing DIR D: (if D: is your CDROM drive)? Then, use GHOST.EXE and restore your drive using files stored on D: drive and not CDROM. But, why don't you just image and restore directly from your server network share? It is a waste of time using second partition, ftp-ing, burning, reading from multiple CDs etc... And btw, DVDs are much more economical than CD-R(W) disks nowadays. I don't know how I could interact with my FreeBSD server from a Win2K box. Could run Samba on the server but rather not. Can you explain what you had in mind. Believe me, I don't relish all the mechanics of getting that cdr/cdrw back to the win2k box. I have plans for a dvd burner but spanning several (4) disc is no problem. I hope I have been clear about this. Really don't want to buy a burner for the win2k box, but I may have to. I appreciate the help Tom "Tom Jackson" wrote in message ... I'm brand new to Ghost 2003 and after a successful clone on my brothers computer (bigger hard drive) I thought it would make a good backup for my new Win2K machine. What I want to do sounds simple but fails. This machine is tied to a router/switcher along with a FreeBSD server and another smp FreeBSD/Win98 box. My only cd burner is at the server. I have created spanned image files of the boot partition to another partition on the Win2K box and ftp'd those to the server. Used mkisofs to create a iso file of each image file and burned to both a cdr and a cdrw. Problem is, back at the 2000 box, Ghost says the files were not created by Ghost. Does any kind soul know a solution to this or am I p...... against the tide? Thanks for reading this, Tom |
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No, thank you for taking the time to help me get this working. Indeed after
making the 2 floppy boot set, the cdrom drive showed as the C: drive and all works. I'll be checking this newsgroup from now on Thanks again Peter, Tom On 2004-07-30, peterfoxghost wrote: Thank you for posting your conversation with Ghost. Yes, that confirms what I thought. You should not check via @CD-R1 but using a drive letter assigned from CDROM driver in config.sys and MSCDEX in autoexec.bat. The reason is @CD-R mode is only for CDs written directly by Ghost (packet written in proprietary mode). Thus it fails. "Tom Jackson" wrote in message ... Go to DOS Ghost with floppy, check off spanning in options, then Local- Check-Image File. In disk image file name box, change from A: drive to Icon for CDROM drive; following the icon says @CD-R1 LITEON CD-ROM LTN526S CD Rom (all other options are my hd partitions and A: drive). When I click that icon, the filename that appears is Ghost CD/DVD Image. I click open, it shows a Error accessing CD/DVD disk (1972). In the box: This disc was not created by Norton Ghost. Retry button nada and cancel gives yet another box, the Error box with Error accessing file, please check media and retry (566). I can check all image files still on hd okay. On 2004-07-29, peterfoxghost wrote: In what words did you ask Ghost to use image files? If you write them down for us, we might be able to help you. Boot with DOS floppy and CDROM support. Can you see your files on CDROM by typing DIR D: (if D: is your CDROM drive)? Then, use GHOST.EXE and restore your drive using files stored on D: drive and not CDROM. But, why don't you just image and restore directly from your server network share? It is a waste of time using second partition, ftp-ing, burning, reading from multiple CDs etc... And btw, DVDs are much more economical than CD-R(W) disks nowadays. I don't know how I could interact with my FreeBSD server from a Win2K box. Could run Samba on the server but rather not. Can you explain what you had in mind. Believe me, I don't relish all the mechanics of getting that cdr/cdrw back to the win2k box. I have plans for a dvd burner but spanning several (4) disc is no problem. I hope I have been clear about this. Really don't want to buy a burner for the win2k box, but I may have to. I appreciate the help Tom "Tom Jackson" wrote in message ... I'm brand new to Ghost 2003 and after a successful clone on my brothers computer (bigger hard drive) I thought it would make a good backup for my new Win2K machine. What I want to do sounds simple but fails. This machine is tied to a router/switcher along with a FreeBSD server and another smp FreeBSD/Win98 box. My only cd burner is at the server. I have created spanned image files of the boot partition to another partition on the Win2K box and ftp'd those to the server. Used mkisofs to create a iso file of each image file and burned to both a cdr and a cdrw. Problem is, back at the 2000 box, Ghost says the files were not created by Ghost. Does any kind soul know a solution to this or am I p...... against the tide? Thanks for reading this, Tom |
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