Can Hot Imaging in SP1 run Hidden in the Background?
theJman
December 12th, 2008
I'm wondering if there is a way to run the Hot Imaging in DS 6.9 on a workstation, but in the background so the user doesn't notice? We are thinking that when we get notified that an employee is being terminated, we could go ahead and make an image of their machine that instant without them even knowing. Because of communication issues, sometimes the user has been allowed to go back to their desk which of course, is inviting data loss haha.
Any ideas?
Filed under: Endpoint Management and Virtualization
Hot Imaging with Ghost
DS 6.9 SP1 includes GIF (Ghost Imaging Foundation) and I believe it supports hot imaging.
nelson
Hot Imaging with Ghost, answer
I believe to use the DS to do the hot imaging you will need to run a script to execute the ghost.exe file (ghost32.exe). I would try testing this first, but you can hide the command line, although I doubt you will be able to keep the ghost32.exe hidden as well. My guess is you can not do it in a way that the user will not be able to see. The way we do it is wait for the user to leave the night before their termination and schedule an imaging, or tell them you need to borrow their computer to do imediate "updates". We had to do that for the notebook users. Either way to use the hot imaging see the altiris KB article # 44644.
hot imaging of system drive
Is hot imaging of system drive is possible?
Can I hot image a drive of system partition and store on another local drive with out rebooting system and with out logging out?
How it will take care of running applications.
Hot imaging ...
It has been a while since I did my hot image test, but if I remember correctly, I kept working on my system while it was imaging. I never tried to restore the image, but I was able to access all the data on the image, which was all I needed to do.
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