Norton Ghost 6.01

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Norton Ghost 6.01

• Tony Brett
• Corpus Christi College
• OUCS ITSS Seminar

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Norton Ghost Overview

• What is Ghost?
• What can Ghost do?
• Why is this useful?
• How does it work?
• Advanced Features
• Applications
• How to get hold of Ghost
• Other similar products

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What is Ghost?

• Product for managing whole disks or partitions
• Supports many file systems (Fat 16/32, NTFS etc.)
• Can take a snapshot, writing or reading file
  to/from
• Ghost Server
• Network Drive
• Tape Device
• ZIP/JAZ, CD-R(W) etc. etc.
• Through parallel port

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Why is this useful?

• Quick and easy replacement of hard disks.
• Configuration libraries can be kept so machines
  can be used in multiple configurations
• Change of OS/File system on PC at will
• Management of configuration on public machines -
  easier than locking down
• Can go back to good configuration quickly if
  install breaks

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How does it work?

• Runs as a DOS application - Menu or command-line
  switches
• Will make images of local disk or just partitions
  of it
• Will replace disk or partition contents from
  image file
• Image file can be on a server, removable media
  (with spanning), other partition or a CD

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Advanced Features (1)

• Ghost Explorer
• Can explore and modify image files

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Advanced Features (2)

• Multicasting - Server runs on DOS, Win32 or
  Netware 5 (4.11sp7)

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Multicasting

• Used to send data to identical hardware
  workstations all at once
• OUCS Lecture Rooms, Corpus Computing Suite
• Packet Drivers (PlugPlay gives problems!)
• DHCP to give IP addresses
• Not through routers
• IP multicasting clones all workstations at once
• Wake-on-LAN technology (PXE)

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Advanced Features (3)

• Ghost Walker
• Identical machines cloned will clash on the
  network(with MS Networking) so...
• Allows changing of
• SIDs for NT
• Workstation (NetBIOS) name with NT and 9x
• Username
• Domain/Workgroup
• TCP/IP settings
• No Support for Novell identities, w/s
  registration.

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Applications (1)

• Managing Computer Rooms
• Use Multicasting, with packet driver support for
  TCP/IP. Watch PlugPlay with 3c5x9.
• W/s will take new image if there is one waiting
  otherwise Ghost times out and Win9x continues to
  load.

c\clone\3c5x9pd 0x60 cls c\clone\ghost
-clone,modeload,src_at_mcdan300_95,dst1 -sure
-rb c\clone\3c5x9pd -u 0x60
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Applications (2) Replacing Hard Disks

• Keep images of machines - hard drives can be
  replaced and machine up and running in 20 minutes
  after disk failure.
• Make a boot floppy that will connect to network
  drive, or CD or other media.
• Put ghost on the floppy or network drive.
• Make bootable CDs (with Ghost and image) of vital
  machines.

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Applications (3) Self-healing standalone

• Library Use!

set comspecd\image\command.com cls call
d\image\repair.bat
Autoexec
Directory of D\image . ltDIRgt
23/11/99 1737 . .. ltDIRgt
23/11/99 1737 .. GHOST EXE 676,839
16/11/99 1258 GHOST.EXE REPAIR BAT
91 23/11/99 1738 repair.bat COMMAND COM
93,812 24/08/96 1111 COMMAND.COM LIBCAT1 GHO
47,303,140 23/11/99 1747 LIBCAT1.GHO
4 file(s) 48,073,882 bytes 2
dir(s) 133,005,312 bytes free
d\image\ghost -clone,modepload,
srcd\image\libcat1.gho1,dst11 -sure
Repair.bat
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Applications (4) Perfect uninstall!

Re-image with Ghost works perfectly!
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How to get a copy of Ghost

• Available as centrally-funded software
• Contact Jane Brown at OUCS with Software Card
  Barcode number and exact number of Worstations
  that will use Ghost.
• Can be downloaded from micros.oucs.ox.ac.uk, but
  need password to unpack archive.

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Similar Products

• Altiris Rapidepoly -
• more advanced than Ghost 5.x, but Ghost 6 adds
  the bits that were missing (management console,
  wizards, ability to edit images)
• PowerQuest DriveImage Pro
• SureData FlashClone

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Questions?
This presentation at http//users.ox.ac.uk/aesb
/ghost.ppt