Re: Nvidia RAID Image Restore

Proof that as they say, your mileage may vary.... I've no issues with GHOST
in a nonRAID environment, and moved over to it from PQ Drive Image which
also worked okay, but again not with NVRAID.

TI works perfectly for me.



"milleron" <millerdot90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4v4gs150o0f1d9s1f7urmgmqjfpo9et8b9@xxxxxxxxxx
> 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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