Re: [WinMac] Ghosting software

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]mail.rochester.edu)
Wed, 05 Jan 2000 11:06:23 -0500

At 09:40 PM 01/04/2000 -0800, Randy Reed wrote:
>I'm running an apple share network at an elementary school. As a result the
>machine software is often afflicted by little hands. We are looking for a
>ghost software like Drive Image from PowerQuest for a Mac. Anyone have any
>suggestions.

I don't know of a program like Drive Image or Norton Ghost. Since Macs
don't have registries, paths, and so on to worry about, disk-level copies
are generally not necessary. I can see a use for them with non-Mac OSs like
linuxppc tho'. Instead lab admins use file-level restoration programs like
RevRDist
http://www.purdue.edu/revrdist/
or Assimilator
http://www.stairways.com/assimilator/

Both use master "images" on a server and client machines are made to match
them, deleting unwanted files and copying "clean" ones as necessary over
Appletalk. We use Assimilator here. One thing Assimilator can do that I
think RevRDist can't is work from a local volume like an external drive or
a CD. We keep our Assimilator masters on CD so when someone really trashes
a machine, we can boot them from the CD and fix them.

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Curtis Wilcox          cwcx@ats.rochester.edu
Desktop Systems Consultant       716/274-1160
Eastman School of Music       Pager: x12-3290 



At 09:40 PM 01/04/2000 -0800, Randy Reed wrote:


I'm running an apple share network  at an
elementary school. As a result the

machine software is often afflicted by little hands. We are looking for
a

ghost software like Drive Image from PowerQuest for a Mac. Anyone have
any

suggestions.


I don't know of a program like Drive Image or Norton Ghost. Since Macs
don't have registries, paths, and so on to worry about, disk-level copies
are generally not necessary. I can see a use for them with non-Mac OSs
like linuxppc tho'. Instead lab admins use file-level restoration
programs like RevRDist

http://www.purdue.edu/revrdist/

or Assimilator

http://www.stairways.com/assimilator/



Both use master "images" on a server and client machines are
made to match them, deleting unwanted files and copying "clean"
ones as necessary over Appletalk. We use Assimilator here. One thing
Assimilator can do that I think RevRDist can't is work from a local
volume like an external drive or a CD. We keep our Assimilator masters on
CD so when someone really trashes a machine, we can boot them from the CD
and fix them.




-- 


Curtis Wilcox         
cwcx@ats.rochester.edu


Desktop Systems Consultant      
716/274-1160

Eastman School of Music       Pager:
x12-3290






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