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Norton Ghost 6.01
Tony Brett
Corpus Christi College
OUCS ITSS Seminar
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?
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Product for managing whole disks or partitions
– Supports many file systems (Fat 16/32, NTFS etc.)
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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)
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Ghost Explorer
– Can explore and modify image files
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Advanced Features (2)
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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 (Plug&Play 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)
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Ghost Walker
– Identical machines cloned will clash on the
network(with MS Networking) so...
– Allows changing of:
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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 Plug&Play with 3c5x9.
 W/s will take new image if there is one waiting
otherwise Ghost times out and Win9x
continues to load.
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c:\clone\3c5x9pd 0x60
cls
c:\clone\ghost -clone,mode=load,src=@mcdan300_95,dst=1 -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
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Library Use!
Autoexec:
set comspec=d:\image\command.com
cls
call d:\image\repair.bat
Directory of D:\image
.
..
GHOST
REPAIR
COMMAND
LIBCAT1
Repair.bat:
<DIR>
23/11/99 17:37 .
<DIR>
23/11/99 17:37 ..
EXE
676,839 16/11/99 12:58 GHOST.EXE
BAT
91 23/11/99 17:38 repair.bat
COM
93,812 24/08/96 11:11 COMMAND.COM
GHO
47,303,140 23/11/99 17:47 LIBCAT1.GHO
4 file(s)
48,073,882 bytes
2 dir(s)
133,005,312 bytes free
d:\image\ghost -clone,mode=pload,
src=d:\image\libcat1.gho:1,dst=1:1 -sure
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Applications (4) Perfect
uninstall!
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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
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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
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