Symantec GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1

Symantec™ Ghost Imaging

Foundation

7.1

Symantec™ Ghost Imaging Foundation

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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4

Chapter 1 Using Symantec Ghost as a stand-alone

program ........................................................................... 13

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 ................................................................................. 33

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

Contents

Restoring from a spanned image ............................................... 38

Image files and tape drives ............................................................. 38

Drives with BitLocker Drive Encryption ........................................... 39

Dynamic disks in Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000 ................................ 39

Support for Disk Drive Overlays (DDO) ............................................. 40

Hibernation and swap files ............................................................. 41

Backing up or migrating a server ..................................................... 42

Resolving SID and configuration issues ...................................... 42

Chapter 3 Modifying image file contents with Ghost

Explorer ........................................................................... 43

Using Ghost Explorer .................................................................... 43

Viewing image files and their properties ........................................... 44

Launching a file ........................................................................... 45

Extracting a file or directory from an image file ................................. 46

Modifying image files ................................................................... 46

Listing the contents of an image file ................................................ 47

About image file spans .................................................................. 47

Setting the default split options ...................................................... 48

Compiling an image file ................................................................. 48

Using Ghost Explorer from the command line ................................... 49

Using Ghost Explorer with long file names ................................. 50

Chapter 4 Running DeployAnywhere from the command

line .................................................................................... 51

Running DeployAnywhere from the command line ............................. 51

Evaluating the target volume ................................................... 52

Retargeting the image ............................................................. 53

Adding new drivers to the Ghost Deploy Anywhere driver

database ............................................................................... 53

Chapter 5 Managing partitions using GDisk ..................................... 55

About GDisk ................................................................................ 55

Running GDisk ...................................................................... 56

Overview of the main command-line switches ................................... 57

Online Help for command-line switches ..................................... 58

Switches common to all GDisk commands .................................. 58

Creating a partition ...................................................................... 61

Reinitializing the Master Boot Record .............................................. 63

Reinitializing GPT disks ................................................................ 64

Showing information about disks .................................................... 64

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Performing multiple GDisk operations using batch mode .................... 65

Deleting and wiping your disk ........................................................ 66

Wiping Host Protected Areas (HPA)/PARTIES ............................. 69

Confirming a disk wipe ............................................................ 70

Activating or deactivating a partition .............................................. 71

Hiding or unhiding a partition ........................................................ 71

Modifying the Windows 2000/XP boot menu ..................................... 72

Specifying the boot.ini path and file name .................................. 73

Displaying the list of current boot entries ................................... 73

Adding an entry to boot.ini ...................................................... 73

Removing an entry from boot.ini ............................................... 76

Setting the default boot option and timeout ................................ 76

Support for large hard-disks .......................................................... 76

Chapter 6 Manipulating files and directories using

OmniFS ............................................................................ 79

About OmniFS ............................................................................. 79

OmniFS operating environments .................................................... 80

Using OmniFS ............................................................................. 80

Access method switches .......................................................... 81

Accessing files and folders with names that contain spaces ............ 83

Listing drive identifiers ........................................................... 83

OmniFS operations ....................................................................... 84

Setting the attribute for a file ................................................... 84

Copying files and directories .................................................... 85

Renaming files and folders ....................................................... 85

Deleting a file ........................................................................ 86

Deleting a folder .................................................................... 86

Listing a folder ...................................................................... 86

Listing all volumes on a computer ............................................. 86

Listing the commands ............................................................. 87

Displaying the OmniFS version and copyright ............................. 87

Creating a directory ................................................................ 87

Using OmniFS to recover files ........................................................ 87

Using a script file ......................................................................... 89

OmniFS scenarios ........................................................................ 90

Using OmniFS from the command line ....................................... 90

Using OmniFS with a script file ................................................ 90

Using OmniFS with a batch file ................................................. 90

OmniFS error handling ................................................................. 91

Correcting the date and time .......................................................... 91

9Contents

Chapter 7 Editing registry keys and values using

GhRegEdit ....................................................................... 93

About GhRegEdit ......................................................................... 93

Using GhRegEdit .......................................................................... 94

Chapter 8 Using GhostCasting to create and restore

images ............................................................................ 101

About GhostCasting .................................................................... 101

Splitting images in a GhostCast operation ................................. 102

Preparing for GhostCasting .......................................................... 103

About creating the model computer ......................................... 103

Creating a GhostCast Server ......................................................... 103

Starting a GhostCast session ........................................................ 104

Creating an image file ................................................................. 105

Connecting a computer to a session ......................................... 105

Restoring an image file onto client computers ................................. 106

Controlling the GhostCast session from the server ............................ 108

Setting Auto Start parameters ...................................................... 111

Setting the data transfer mode ...................................................... 111

Controlling the amount of network bandwidth used .......................... 113

Viewing and changing GhostCast Server session options ................... 114

Running Ghost.exe on a client computer ......................................... 115

Chapter 9 GhostCasting from the command line .......................... 117

About running GhostCast Server from the command line ................... 117

Starting the GhostCast session ...................................................... 118

GhostCast Server command-line options ........................................ 118

Command-line option examples using GhostCast Server .............. 119

Chapter 10 GhostCasting and IP addresses ...................................... 123

About IP addresses for GhostCasting .............................................. 123

Locally specified IP addresses ....................................................... 123

Examples of Wattcp.cfg client configuration files ....................... 124

About using BOOTP/DHCP to assign IP addresses ............................. 124

BOOTP/DHCP automatically defined IP address ......................... 124

Appendix A GDisk disk-wipe specifications ....................................... 125

About GDisk disk-wipe specifications ............................................. 125

Clearing, sanitizing, and viewing hard disks .................................... 125

About completeness of coverage .................................................... 127

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Determining disk size .................................................................. 129

Appendix B Command-line switches ................................................... 131

About Symantec Ghost switches .................................................... 131

Listing command-line switches ............................................... 132

Command-line switches ............................................................... 132

Accessing files ........................................................................... 148

Using the clone switch ................................................................ 148

Defining the type of clone command ........................................ 149

Setting a source for the clone switch ........................................ 151

Setting a destination for the clone switch .................................. 152

Setting a destination size for the clone switch ............................ 154

Examples of clone switch usage ............................................... 154

Batch file example ................................................................ 156

Using the -CRC32 switch .............................................................. 157

Examples of -CRC32 usage ..................................................... 158

Files not checked with CRC ..................................................... 159

About numbering the Virtual Partition ........................................... 159

Appendix C Ghost for Linux ................................................................... 161

Supported configurations ............................................................ 161

Supported Linux distributions for cloning ................................. 164

Supported Linux distributions for running Ghost ............................. 165

Symantec Ghost utility support ..................................................... 165

Appendix D Configuring firewalls ......................................................... 167

Symantec Ghost port configuration ............................................... 167

Appendix E Troubleshooting ................................................................. 171

Ghost.exe errors messages ........................................................... 171

Ghost.exe problems .................................................................... 172

Vista volume containing system restore points .......................... 173

Starting from a PXE image on a Dell Dimension 8100

computer ...................................................................... 173

About using Ghost with NTFS files .......................................... 173

Symantec GhostCast errors .......................................................... 175

Symantec Ghost and legacy network cards ...................................... 177

Problems running Symantec Ghost ................................................ 177

Cloning Windows 2000/XP computers ...................................... 177

Vista partition restore ........................................................... 177

Joining client computers to Active Directory Domains ................. 177

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Cannot start from drive A ...................................................... 178

Windows blue screen ............................................................ 178

Missing hibernation file ......................................................... 178

About cancelling a Ghost.exe operation .................................... 179

Index ................................................................................................................... 181

Contents12

Using Symantec Ghost as a

stand-alone program

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About Ghost.exe

■ Using Ghost.exe on a stand-alone computer

■ Starting Ghost.exe

■ Using Ghost.exe with a mapped network drive

■ Establishing a peer-to-peer connection with Ghost.exe

■ Creating a backup image file

■ Restoring from an image file

■ Cloning disks and partitions

■ Verifying integrity

■ Adding switches to your Ghost.exe operation

■ Running Ghost32.exe in Windows

About Ghost.exe

Ghost.exe is a stand-alone program run within DOS that lets you copy disks or

partitions from one computer to another. You can use Ghost to create image files

and restore them.

1

Chapter

Note: For Ghost32, VMDK images are supported for all normal operations, and

PQI and V2I images are supported as a source (but not as a destination) in all

cloning operations. You must have v2DiskLib.dll in the same directory as

Ghost32.exe.

The information about Ghost.exe is also true for Ghost for Linux, with the following

limitations:

■ Direct writing to CD or tape is not supported.

■ Peer to peer connections over printer cable or USB cable are not supported.

Using Ghost.exe on a stand-alone computer

The following is an overview of how to start and run Ghost.exe.

Note: Ghost.exe does not fit on a single floppy disk. Ghost.exe is concatenated on

a RAM drive in DOS and executed from the RAM drive. The concatenation is

transparent.

To use Ghost.exe on a stand-alone computer

1

Start Ghost.exe.

See “Starting Ghost.exe” on page 15.

Add command-line switches, if necessary.

See “About Symantec Ghost switches” on page 131.

2

If necessary, establish a peer-to-peer connection.

See “Establishing a peer-to-peer connection with Ghost.exe” on page 16.

3

Select the Ghost.exe operation:

■ Disk or partition to image file

■ Disk or partition from image file

■ Disk to disk

■ Partition to partition

■ Check image or disk

4

Do one of the following:

■ Select the source hard disk or partitions.

■ Select the image file.

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5

Do one of the following for operations other than checking an image:

■ Select the destination hard disk or partition.

■ Select the image file.

Warning: Make sure that you select the correct destination. The destination

disk is completely overwritten with no chance of recovering any data.

6

Complete the Ghost.exe operation.

Starting Ghost.exe

Ghost.exe is a DOS-based application that runs in DOS mode outside of Windows.

You cannot run Ghost.exe within Windows Vista/XP/2000, Linux, OS/2, or other

non-DOS operating systems. You can run Ghost.exe on a non-DOS operating

system by using a Ghost boot package. The Ghost boot package lets you start the

computer in DOS.

To start Ghost.exe

◆

Do one of the following:

At the DOS prompt, type the following command:

progra~1\symantec \ghost\ghost.exe

Start the computer in

DOS mode.

After the first DOS boot disk loads you are prompted to insert

the second Ghost boot disk. Ghost starts automatically.

You can create a DOS boot disk on a computer that is running

Windows or DOS. Additional DOS drivers might be required

to runGhost.exe. If you cannot access some hardware or

network resources, such as a CD-R/RW drive, you can use

the Ghost Boot Wizard to create a boot disk that contains the

necessary drivers.

Use a DOS boot disk to

start the computer.

When the computer starts Ghost starts automatically.

You can use the Ghost Boot Wizard to create a DOS boot

package.

Use a DOS boot

package to start the

computer.

Using Ghost.exe with a mapped network drive

When you access a mapped network drive you must be aware of the following:

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Starting Ghost.exe

■ You must use a mapped network boot package created from the Ghost Boot

Wizard.

■ If the boot package contains Ghost.exe then you cannot save the package to a

floppy disk set. You can save the package to a USB flash drive or an ISO image.

■ If you run Ghost.exe from any location other than A: then you must reset the

environment variable to the correct location of Wattcp.cfg before you start

Ghost.

■ DOS drivers cannot handle large files over a mapped network drive. Therefore,

Ghost sets a 2 GB split limit when writing to a mapped network drive. Before

you access a large image file over a mapped network drive you should split the

image file into spans that are no greater than 2 GB.

See “About image file spans” on page 47.

If you have restarted the computer with a boot package that does not contain

Ghost. exe then the computer restarts to a command prompt, for example D:\.

You must reset the Wattcp environment variable to D:\net\wattcp.cfg. You can

then start Ghost.exe from the mapped network drive.

If you have restarted the computer with a boot package that contains Ghost.exe

then Ghost starts after the computer has restarted. If GhostCasting or peer-to-peer

services are not available from the menu then ensure that Ghost is reading a

Wattcp.cfg that has SHARE_MODE=1. Exit Ghost and then at the command prompt,

reset the Wattcp environment variable. For example, if you are at the command

prompt D:\, then reset the Wattcp environment variable to D:\net\wattcp.cfg,

ensuring that D:\net\wattcp.cfg has SHARE_MODE=1. You can then restart Ghost

from either D:\ or from a mapped network drive.

To reset the environment variable to the correct location of Wattcp.cfg

1

On the command line, type the following:

set wattcp=<drive>\net\wattcp.cfg

2

Press Enter.

Establishing a peer-to-peer connection with Ghost.exe

Note: The Linux version of Ghost supports peer to peer connections over TCP

only. It does not support LPT or USB connections.

If you are using an LPT, USB, or TCP peer-to-peer connection, then you must set

up the connection between computers before a clone, backup, or restore operation.

The computers must be physically connected using one of the following:

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A parallel connection cableLPT

A USB 1.1 cableUSB

A network connectionTCP peer-to-peer

In a peer-to-peer operation, one computer is designated the master computer,

and the other is designated the slave computer.

Table 1-1 describes the possible Ghost.exe processes and the master/slave

relationships that exist within these processes.

Table 1-1

Master and slave computers

SlaveMasterAction

Computer containing

destination disk

Computer containing

source disk

Disk-to-disk clone

Computer receiving

destination image file

Computer containing

source disk

Back up disk to image file

Computer containing

source image file

Computer containing

destination disk

Restore disk from image file

Computer containing

destination partition

Computer containing

source partition

Partition-to-partition clone

Computer receiving

destination image file

Computer containing

source partition

Back up partition to image file

Computer containing

source image file

Computer containing

destination partition

Restore partition from image file

Select which computer is the master (the computer from which you control the

connection) and which is the slave (the other computer participating in the

connection). All operator input must occur on the master computer.

You must have two Ghost boot packages with which to start both the master and

slave computers. You can create the boot packages using the Ghost Boot Wizard.

Note: You must create both boot packages in the same version of Symantec Ghost.

You cannot use one boot disk that was created in Symantec Ghost 8.0 and one

boot disk that was created in Symantec Ghost 11.5 in the same task.

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Establishing a peer-to-peer connection with Ghost.exe

To establish a peer-to-peer connection with Ghost.exe

1

Do one of the following:

■ On the master computer, insert the first Ghost boot disk into the floppy

disk drive, and then restart the computer.

Repeat this step on the slave computer.

■ Restart the master computer and the slave computer by using the Ghost

boot package.

2

If you are using a floppy disk set, then, when prompted, insert the second

Ghost boot disk into the floppy disk drives of the master computer and the

slave computer.

Ghost.exe starts automatically.

3

On the slave computer, on the main menu, do one of the following:

Click Peer to peer > USB > Slave to start the computer

as the slave computer.

USB connection

Click Peer to peer > LPT > Slave to start the computer

as the slave computer.

LPT connection

Click Peer to peer > TCP/IP > Slave to start the

computer as the slave computer.

Make note of the IP address that is displayed in the

Slave Connect dialog box.

TCP/IP connection

4

On the master computer, on the main menu, do one of the following:

Click Peerto peer >USB >Master to start the computer

as the master computer.

USB connection

Click Peerto peer >LPT > Master to start the computer

as the master computer.

LPT connection

Click Peer to peer > TCP/IP > Master to start the

computer as the master computer.

Type the IP address that is displayed on the slave

computer.

TCP/IP connection

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About splitting images in a peer-to-peer operation

When you perform a peer-to-peer operation, an image is split when it reaches 2

GB in size unless you have set the split size to another value using the -split

command switch. If this switch is explicitly set to 0, the image does not split.

See “About Symantec Ghost switches” on page 131.

Creating a backup image file

You can create a backup of a hard disk or one or more partitions.

The backup is saved as an image file, which you can store on the following:

■ Second hard disk

■ Second partition on your hard disk (partition backup only)

■ LS120 Superdisk, JAZ, or ZIP disk

■ CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW/+R/+RW

■ FireWire hard disk

■ USB 1.1/2.0 hard disk

■ Tape

■ Locally mapped network file server

■ Another computer using a peer-to-peer connection

Compression may affect the speed of your operation. When you select a

compression level, Ghost.exe estimates the amount of space available for the

destination image file. If there is insufficient space, Ghost.exe prompts you to

enable spanning of image files.

Backing up a hard disk to an image file

When you back up a hard disk, a copy of the entire disk is saved as an image file.

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Creating a backup image file

To back up a disk to an image file

1

On the Ghost.exe main menu, do one of the following:

Click Local > Disk > To Image.Local

Click Disk > To Image.Peer-to-peer connection

2

In the Source Drive dialog box, select the source disk.

The Source Drive dialog box shows details of every disk that Ghost.exe finds

on the local computer.

3

In the File Locator dialog box, type the image file destination and name.

4

In the Image file description dialog box, type a description of the image file.

You can modify this description on the Console or in Ghost Explorer.

5

Click Save.

6

When you are prompted to select the compression level, select one of the

following:

For no compressionNo

For low compressionFast

For high compressionHigh

See “Image files and compression” on page 34.

7

In the Compress Image dialog box, select a compression option.

8

If Ghost detects that there is not enough space for the image file, you are

prompted to enable spanning.

9

Check the details and ensure that the correct options are selected.

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