Unable to Create/Restore Partition Image.
Hi,
I've been at this for several days and just can't get it to work. I have a computer which has a single disk but two partitions. Using GhostCast Server, I want to create an image of the first partition only and later on restore the image back on to the first partition of the client computer without affecting any data inside the second partition. So far what I've done with GhostCast is create an image of the entire disk, however when it comes to restore, it restores the entire disk. When I use the same image and select the partition option on GhostCast server, I can not manually select the first partition to restore, as a matter a fact it does not show any partitions at all and GhostCast server does not work with this option.
I've also tried creating an image with the partition enable on GhostCast server. With this I can select which partition I wan to create an image of versus the entire disk. But when it comes to restore, on the client side, I am force to restore the image on to the entire disk.
All I want to do is have an image only of the first partition ( I call it my Operating partition and the second is my Pictures partition). After a few days/weeks/months having my children playing with the computer and infecting with trojans, I'd like to use the image I create and restore it back to how it was serveral weeks prior with out affecting the pictures I've store on the second partition.
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Hi
While restoring the image , you said you are enabling partition options;
in addition to this just try enabling the option - 'More Options' and in that selecting Disk number and Partition number, this will perform the restoring of the partition.
This should work fine as you can see in the commnad line , it is using the clonning mode 'prestore' [which is for partition restore] with the respective partition number.
Yogesh Sadhu.
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In addition to manually
In addition to manually selecting options in the UI you can always type the command line: -clone,src=image.gho:1,dst=1:1,mode=prestore. Please consult ghost implementation guide for full list of command-line options.
I've tried selecting Disk
I've tried selecting Disk number and Partition number however on the client side it always wants to restore to the entire disk. I forgot to mention, these are two logical partitions (not physical). So basically after enabling the options on the server side, I am able to select which partion from the image I want to restore. The problem is I can't select the partition on the system to restore it to, it always wants to restore it to the entire disk.
HI
On your Ghostcast Server UI , in client command line option - you can edit the option 'dst=1:1' which means restoring to the destination drive 1 , and partition 1 ; by changing the values of drive / partition number you can restore the image to the specified disk / partition.
Can you provide the client side command from the tab 'command line';
Yogesh Sadhu.
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Client command line should
Client command line should contain nothing but session name. something like that from memory: -ja=session_name. If you give it any other parameters then those will override whatever ghostcast server supplies.
On the Ghostcast server UI,
On the Ghostcast server UI, if I select the 'DISK' option I'm able to view the command line option and make changes. When I attempted to change the command line to 'dst=1:1', it reverts back to 'dst=1' when I press the accept client button. There is not way for me to force to stay at 'dst=1:1
If I select the 'PARTITION' option on GhostCast UI, all the command line options are greyed out. The drop down menu next to the 'PARTITION' though not grey', but instead blank.
Am I creating the images wrong so that is why I'm unable to restore correctly?
When I create the image I select the 'PARTITION' on the GhostCast UI so to not image the entire disk but just one logical partition. The command line which is automatically created by GhostCast server is " -clone, mode=pcreate,src=1:1, dst=@mcaa ".
Thank very much
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