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  • 1.  Programmatic database creation

    Posted Jul 23, 2007 05:45 PM
    I'm an end user of the Ghost console on our corporate network. Our systems department performed the semi-annual fire test on our compter center during summer shutdown. The server OS died when they tried to bring it back online. This will be the third time I have had to configure the ghost console database. We have over 300 computers on the network that we backup with ghost console. Is there a method to programmatically create the ghost console configuration?? Can it be exported/imported to csv files or another format?? Is there a method to retrieve the database from tape backups?? Anyone have some recomendations as to how I can protect my work from their issues??


  • 2.  RE: Programmatic database creation

    Posted Jul 23, 2007 08:38 PM
    The below instructions for backup and restore of the Ghost Database might be useful to you. Not just for future but also if you can access the tape backup.
     


  • 3.  RE: Programmatic database creation

    Posted Jul 24, 2007 06:07 AM
    I've also made a Windows Script Host script that does some of the work of the backup side of the procedure; it exports the database account names and passwords that are randomly generated at install name, as well as saving the privkey.crt and pubkey.crt files that are used by the clients to verify the identity of the server.

    You can get this script from here if you want to try it (it's not "official", it's just something I whipped up while on vacation earlier this year).

    You do need to be a member of the Administrators group to run it; it has one significant advantage over the basic manual procedure which is that it can take a backup while the services and the console are running, and it compresses the whole bundle into a single .CAB file that's easy to copy someplace permanent.