Bootable ghost CD

[romanstopme]

My fiend recommended that i use ghost to back up my c drive to an external hard drive. He recommended a program called ghost. You pop in the cd it backs it up and when you need to recover you pop it back in and find the back up copy. Is this program legal and is there any other programs that anyone recommends that are like it or better. or is there another way that is more efficient

[Bodyslide]

Yes, it's a product by Symantec...I have used it alot over the past few years.

http://www.symantec.com/themes/ghost/index.jsp

[stiltman]

Is this program legal

Only if you get it through the proper channels

There's really only one file you need (depending on version you want)
16bit version for DOS and Win9X versions boot diskette/CD = ghost.exe (It can't handle 1TB size drives)
32bit version for WinPE discs bootable CDs = ghost32.exe (faster and can handle 1TB drives)

Every version of Ghost CD that I've had is bootable by itself, but usually limited in your choices. I prefer to build a BartPE or UBCD and add the required ghost files to it. I also include any drivers I need too. (ie. I need RAID drivers for my current PC. Without these drivers ghost wouldn't see the hard drive(s))

[jollyjohn]

Acronis*True*Image

[ahhaa]

Clonezilla (as featured today at distrowatch) free Live CD 90 meg toolkit.
As SourceForge puts it:
Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone software similar to Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05185
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=886991


People who need this may also want...

SystemRescueCd, version 1.1.1
"Updated the standard kernels to Linux 2.6.26.7 with Reiser4; updated the alternative kernels to Linux 2.6.26.7 with Reiser4; updated the speakup kernel modules; updated TrueCrypt (encryption program) to 6.0a; updated NTFS-3G to 1.5012 (NTFS full read-write support); updated GParted to 0.3.9; updated the e1000 network driver (with protection against corruption); updated 'Offline NT Password & Registry Editor' ('ntpasswd' boot entry); fixed option 'skipmount' which was broken; the network driver r8169 is back in the standard kernels; added support for Firewire 1394 which was missing from the kernel; added ntfsreloc 0.7 (deals with moving NTFS file systems); added network drivers: atl1e, at76_usb; added firmware for Ralink rt73-based WiFi USB adapters." Download (MD5): systemrescuecd-x86-1.1.1.iso (238MB).
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=systemrescue

both are legal and current state of the art