Network storage and Ghost recovery?

[jjsmithin]

I have a ethernet drive that is storing Ghost images.
This is on a Home LAN peer to peer network.
When I boot from the Ghost CD into the recovery invironment, and when
using the "browse command' to find the network drive, the Ghost app
will not find any devices on the network.
I read something in the help that if there is not a DHCP server you
have to enter the IP address.
Is this the case in a peer to peer network like I have....or should
Ghost be able to find it with the browser?

thanks for any tips

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a ethernet drive that is storing Ghost images.
This is on a Home LAN peer to peer network.
When I boot from the Ghost CD into the recovery invironment,
and when using the "browse command' to find the network drive,
the Ghost app will not find any devices on the network.

Which ghost ? That sounds like ghost 9.

It does have a problem with browsing the network in some situations,
particularly if all the network devices dont have a workgroup of 'workgroup'

I read something in the help that if there is not
a DHCP server you have to enter the IP address.

Its more complicated than that.

Is this the case in a peer to peer network like I have....
or should Ghost be able to find it with the browser?

It normally can find it if you explicitly name the device.
Hit the Browse button on the first screen and in the File
box popup, type the share name there, \\mainpc\images
etc where mainpc is the computer name and images is
the name of the shared resource on that device where
the image files are stored.

That produces a popup where you enter the username
and password on the target machine. None of that is
case sensitive, the computer name, the share name
or the username. The account need admin privileges.

Not too clear what will happen with a NAS on some of that detail,
the device name should be visible in XP networking before booting
the CD and you likely can name the resource on the NAS as well.

The username and password might get a bit tricky in the sense
that it may not be that clearly spelt out in the NAS documentation.

There's some extra info on the symantec site, havent checked it recently.

 

[Neil Maxwell]

I have a ethernet drive that is storing Ghost images.

Which drive are you using, and how do you like it?

 

[jjsmithin]

thank you. I think you were right! I have my own network group name
and it only sees the default "workgroup" name. I got it to working by
mapping the IP of the NAS to Z drive and from there it worked fine and
I was able to restore.

thank you

 

[jjsmithin]

Im using the Linksys NSLU2. Its a storage server with 2 USBs and I
have a couple USB drives on it. Its uses LINUX OS.

Since they upgraded the firmware its been very reliable.
At only $70 pretty cheap.
It comes with a backup utility built into the OS which you access via
..url but I havent tried that as I use Ghost.
On the negative side it formats the drive incompatible with NTFS so you
can just plug the drive into a PC, you have to get at it through the
NSLU2.
Also, I dont think its as fast as it could be. THe best ave rates I
get are 30megbits/s to it on a 100baseT LAN. But that may be my PC, i
dont know.

 

[Neil Maxwell]

Im using the Linksys NSLU2. Its a storage server with 2 USBs and I
have a couple USB drives on it. Its uses LINUX OS.

Since they upgraded the firmware its been very reliable.
At only $70 pretty cheap.
It comes with a backup utility built into the OS which you access via
.url but I havent tried that as I use Ghost.
On the negative side it formats the drive incompatible with NTFS so you
can just plug the drive into a PC, you have to get at it through the
NSLU2.
Also, I dont think its as fast as it could be. THe best ave rates I
get are 30megbits/s to it on a 100baseT LAN. But that may be my PC, i
dont know.

I've heard the same things about the box. It seems people are mostly
happy with them except for those limitations. There was some talk
about drivers that could let an XP PC read the file system (ext3?).

My concern is if something goes wrong with the NSLU2, you're out of
luck unless you have a spare, but I haven't played with one. At that
price, it's worth a try.

Thanks for the info!

 

[Arno Wagner]

I've heard the same things about the box. It seems people are mostly
happy with them except for those limitations. There was some talk
about drivers that could let an XP PC read the file system (ext3?).

There are some, but it is not really the best choice.

My concern is if something goes wrong with the NSLU2, you're out of
luck unless you have a spare, but I haven't played with one. At that
price, it's worth a try.

For recovery you can still remove the disk, put it in a PC and boot
form a KNOPPIX CD (or other CD-linux). That should allow you to access
the files and do repairs if needed. As to thinks that can go wrong:
Linux ext2/ext3 is very rugged, critical information is stored in
several places. I currently have ext3 on my laptop and I run it until
the battery fails routinely. No problems so far. The worst I have seen
was a disk that got disconnected during a write operation (defect
SATA dongle). I had to run e2fsck manually, but it repaired everything
(except the open files, they lost the data the OS could not write
obviously) from a spare superblock.

The only likely possibility for problems I see is hardware failure.

Arno

 

[jwetzel]

Im using the Linksys NSLU2. Its a storage server with 2 USBs
and I
have a couple USB drives on it. Its uses LINUX OS.

Since they upgraded the firmware its been very reliable.
At only $70 pretty cheap.
It comes with a backup utility built into the OS which you
access via
..url but I havent tried that as I use Ghost.
On the negative side it formats the drive incompatible with
NTFS so you
can just plug the drive into a PC, you have to get at it
through the
NSLU2.
Also, I dont think its as fast as it could be. THe best ave
rates I
get are 30megbits/s to it on a 100baseT LAN. But that may be
my PC, i
dont know.

I am also trying to use a Linksys NSLU2 with Ghost 9 (and a Maxtor
external drive on the NSLU2. But I am having trouble getting the Ghost
to reboot in the virtual DOS mode and to recognize my network. I have
tried mapping the NSLU2 drive but then it asks me to specify a driver.
It has lots to choose from but none of its drivers match mine. I have
two possible network cards. An Intel PRO Wireless LAN 2100 38 ini PCI
Adapter and an Intel PRO /100 VE Network Connection.

Where do I get an NDIS2 or Packet driver that is compatible with
either of these two devices? The Windows XP drivers are w70n51.sys and
e100b325.sys.