Symantec GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1, Manual

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Technical Support
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Chapter 1 Using Symantec Ghost as a stand-alone
program
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About Ghost.exe .......................................................................... 13
Using Ghost.exe on a stand-alone computer ...................................... 14
Starting Ghost.exe ........................................................................ 15
Using Ghost.exe with a mapped network drive ................................... 15
Establishing a peer-to-peer connection with Ghost.exe ........................ 16
About splitting images in a peer-to-peer operation ....................... 19
Creating a backup image file .......................................................... 19
Backing up a hard disk to an image file ....................................... 19
Backing up a partition to an image file ....................................... 21
Restoring from an image file .......................................................... 23
Restoring a hard disk from an image file .................................... 23
Restoring a partition from an image file ..................................... 25
Cloning disks and partitions ........................................................... 26
Cloning disk to disk ................................................................ 27
Cloning partition to partition ................................................... 28
Verifying integrity ....................................................................... 30
Adding switches to your Ghost.exe operation .................................... 30
Running Ghost32.exe in Windows ................................................... 31
Compatibility with Ghost.exe ................................................... 32
Chapter 2 Symantec Ghost support for image files and
disks
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About Symantec Ghost image files .................................................. 33
Image files and compression .......................................................... 34
Performance on a network ....................................................... 34
Image files and CRC32 .................................................................. 35
Image files and volume spanning .................................................... 36
Limitations on the image file size .............................................. 36
Size-limited image files ........................................................... 36
Spanned image files ................................................................ 36
Spanning across multiple volumes and limiting span sizes ............ 37
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