Ghost Solution Suite

 View Only

  • 1.  restore from ghost partition?

    Posted Apr 17, 2007 04:46 PM
    I've used Ghost for a while but am relatively new to solution suite.  Is there a way to restore from an image file that has been downloaded into the ghost virtual partition?
     
    I've tried creating a task with Clone and Transfer Files selected.  Under Transfer Files I put the name of my image files and the destination of [Ghost Partition].  How do I create a Config Resource \ Image object that points to this gho file? 
     
    I've selected "Image is located on the Client Machine" but what's the path?  What's the drive letter of the Ghost Partition?  I tried C:\ but that didn't work.
     
    Do I have a more fundamental misunderstanding here?  Do the transfer files only occur after the clone operation completes?


  • 2.  RE: restore from ghost partition?

    Posted Apr 17, 2007 10:34 PM
    Hi there,
    It is an interesting scenario you have here.
    However, I don't believe you can restore an image from ghost virtual partition via console clone task. Here's a couple of reasons I can think of.
    1) Ghost virtual partition only has a few MB of free space, so you can't really transfer any OS image into it.
    2) Steps included in a ghost task are executed in pre-defined orders, and clone comes before file transfer.
     
    Just wondering, are you unable to transfer the image to the client machines via a separate task first? Followed by a clone task, specifying a image resource that points to the location where you've just transferred the image.
    Eg.
    1) Run file transfer task : Transfer image.gho to say, c:\.
    2) Create a local image resource :
             Select "Image is located on the client machine"
             Specify "c:\image.gho" in the location field.
    3) Run clone task : Select the local image resource you've just created above.
     
     
    Hope that helps
     
    Cheers
     
    Peter
     
     

    ghinky wrote:
    I've used Ghost for a while but am relatively new to solution suite.  Is there a way to restore from an image file that has been downloaded into the ghost virtual partition?
     
    I've tried creating a task with Clone and Transfer Files selected.  Under Transfer Files I put the name of my image files and the destination of [Ghost Partition].  How do I create a Config Resource \ Image object that points to this gho file? 
     
    I've selected "Image is located on the Client Machine" but what's the path?  What's the drive letter of the Ghost Partition?  I tried C:\ but that didn't work.
     
    Do I have a more fundamental misunderstanding here?  Do the transfer files only occur after the clone operation completes?




  • 3.  RE: restore from ghost partition?

    Posted Apr 17, 2007 10:47 PM
    Would that work?  Can you restore from a file on C:\ when you're overwriting C:\ ?
     
    Can you create Task dependencies?  ie a Clone task starts after a Transfer Files task finishes.


  • 4.  RE: restore from ghost partition?

    Posted Apr 17, 2007 11:41 PM
    Yep, you can have the image on c: and overwrite c: with it. :smileyhappy:
    I don't think there is a way to start one task based on another task's progress though.
     
    Cheers
     
    Peter