suggestions?

4/20/2007 3:56:04 PM

i dont think you'll find any that really justify saving $50.

4/20/2007 3:57:25 PM

I have ghost, but I keep getting this damn 36000 error and I've tried everything google & norton suggested.

4/20/2007 3:59:42 PM

theres a ghost4linux thing that uses DD i think. you might try that.

Although its not free, acronis is pretty great.

4/20/2007 4:06:13 PM

It's a windows box

4/20/2007 4:28:43 PM

Acronis and Norton are your best shot. Don't know any open source options. Or maybe http://www.mozy.com

[Edited on April 20, 2007 at 9:06 PM. Reason : addition]

4/20/2007 9:06:01 PM

http://www.demonoid.com/files/?category=5&subcategory=0&language=0&seeded=0&external=2&query=norton+ghost&uid=0&sort=

4/20/2007 9:11:23 PM

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4/20/2007 9:31:59 PM

knoppix boot CD + partimage.... but the NTFS support is still beta I beleive. I've used it and it works, but I like BartPE + Ghost a lot better... pay the $50 it's worth it.

4/21/2007 9:05:07 PM

Wow you guys are thick.

4/21/2007 9:51:14 PM

acronis isn't open source, but you wont get anything better. u can get trial versions of it... send me an im or something if you want me to send ya one

4/21/2007 10:00:20 PM

http://www.partition-saving.com/

Ive used this without issue on NTFS volumes. Needs any DOS based boot disk. I used a custom 98SE disk.

I use a utility like zapdisk (http://stuff.rad-on.de/ZapDisk.zip) to zero-fill the empty space, which creates a smaller image, then back up the partition to another harddrive (you can use a dos usb driver to mount a usb drive). Boot to savepart, save the image, then create a bootable dvd with the custom savepart floppy and the savepart image. (My images are less than what a dvd can hold). Then you have complete bootable backup on a dvd.

Only caveat is that it cannot create ntfs files if you are saving to an ntfs partiton, so you have to precreate empty files as place holders (fat doesnt need this). Savepart makes compressed images in a maximum of 2gb chunks.

Comparable to dd saves, compression is a little better than dd | gzip, but I like the interface instead of creating my own.

4/22/2007 1:09:52 PM