Symantec GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1

Symantec™Ghost Imaging

Foundation

7.1

Symantec™Ghost Imaging Foundation

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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4

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

Contents

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

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

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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

9Contents

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 GDisk disk-wipe specifications ....................................... 125

About GDisk disk-wipe specifications ............................................. 125

Clearing, sanitizing, and viewing hard disks .................................... 125

About completeness of coverage .................................................... 127

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