Acronis VS symantec ghost

[CJC]

Hi,

I have been trialling Acronis recently as an imaging and image deploy
software, but wondering what others opinions is on this or do people
recommend symantec ghost or something else?

Ideally I want the software to be cheap and easy to install and
maintain.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[_ sam]

Try Synergix imageIT. www.synergix.com

 

[CJC]

Thanks Sam for this link.

Does this program overcome hardware abstraction layer incompatibilities
or does the PC's being run up need to be exact replicas?

Thanks

 

[_ sam]

You can inject appropriate HAL or other drivers or SYSPREP after the
restore. If it is FAT32 based image, simply copy files over immediately
after the restore and before the reboot, for SYSPREP to do its job. If it
is NTFS based image, then load DOS NTFSDRV (included) after the restore is
complete and copy the files.

If you have FAT32 based image, you can even edit the SYSPREP COMPUTERNAME
entry by using the following command

imageit /restore /part:0:1 /image:mypcimage.img /computername:my_pc

Hope this helps.