Re: Nvidia RAID Image Restore

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:51:20 GMT, john.dsl@xxxxxxxxxxx (John Lewis)
wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:33:45 -0800, "Bob Doran"
><bdoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Problem solved. Acronis True Image works perfectly (at about half the price
>>of Ghost), and saves/restores NVRAID images easily.
>>
>
>Ghost is/was/will-be a junk program. I still use my copy of the
>original Powerquest Drive Image 8.03 to back up critical partitions to
>a spare spindle. I hate to think what Symantec has done to it since
>the PQ acquisition.

Symantec didn't do anything to Drive Image, per se. Ghost 9 and Ghost
10 are Symantec's implementation of a lesser-known PowerQuest Product
called V2i Protector Desktop which was, in turn, a superset of Drive
Image. I've found Ghost 9 and Ghost 10 to be a little more useful
than Acronis Drive Image in that they allow me to specify how many
image sets (base and incrementals [version 10 will do differentials])
I want to keep before the program automatically overwrites the oldest
one. Drive Image, which I used from version 2 through 7, is a lesser
program because, while reliable, IIRC it couldn't back up the boot
drive in Windows and couldn't do incremental backups. Acronis TI 9 is
so buggy that Acronis should be the recipient of a class-action law
suit for releasing it SO prematurely.
I am most definitely not a fan of Symantec, but I think that Ghost 9
and 10 are good products that they've made better than the programs
they bought from PowerQuest.

Just an alternative opinion . . . .

By the way, regarding how inexpensive TI is, I got my copy of Ghost 10
for $9.99 with the product and upgrade MIRs.

snip

Ron
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