D'oh! Backup issue solved

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sat Sep 2 15:50:18 2000

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
> > loads of hardware and most work fine. What I find lacking is the ability
> > to
> > IMAGE copy the disks(for NT4) replace the disk and write it back. I'm
> > used
> > to doing this with VMS to clone a disk and it's a life saver.
>
> Around Point Loma they use a Symantec utility called GHOST to do this. I
> ghosted two NT workstations this way to make a template backup. One small
> detail, though, is that you have to fix security IDs when you're done, but
> the GHoSTWALK utility makes this easy to do.

I think they include a utility called SID? to do that. Also, my
understanding is that the SID is assigned automatically when the machine is
first connected to the network. I ghosted the drives from a newly installed
system that had not been connected to the network and things seemed to work
out just fine.
Received on Sat Sep 02 2000 - 15:50:18 BST