Symantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
Throw them on a Server 2012 box and turn on Dedupe? Use something like Mirage to manage backups and imaging that has its own dedupe functionality. Just backup the profile/documents?
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Captain Jack wrote: when some one leaves our company we take an image of their machine as it stands so we have it on file, Why do you need this image on file? I'm sure there's a reason, but I'm not...
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LarryG. wrote: Captain Jack wrote: when some one leaves our company we take an image of their machine as it stands so we have it on file, Why do you need this image on file? I'm sure there's a...
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
LarryG. wrote: Captain Jack wrote: when some one leaves our company we take an image of their machine as it stands so we have it on file, Why do you need this image on file? I'm sure there's a...
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
Use pkzip to span across 1.44MB floppies. It will only take 21,334 for a 30GB image. :) I'm kidding, of course.
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
Delete them and use imagex? For backing up machines, Disk2VHD is far, far far faster (can be done hot on the OS) and has compression and can turn the machine into a VM. Windows 8 can mount the vhd...
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I'm with Brian Thorp on this. Disk2VHD is very convenient, stupid simple to use, always works. But I myself like to make a VMWare image of the computer and trim off the excess space from the image. We...
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
I've actually started archiving to Blu-Ray media for things like this. They burn surprisingly quick for the amount of data.
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
If you have the emails why image the PC. You can always copy documents then wipe the PC, but then again MY Documents should have been redirected to the server anyways.
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
I am quite certain that the programs suggested above won't chop them down to much. What you should do is find out if you can get a policy written up about how long to keep these images. Delete them...
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There are some of us that really dislike deleting stuff. RedoBackup does a great job compressing the backups.http:/ Opens a new window/redobackup.org
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
At our organization we image the machines and repurpose them, keeping the images for 3 months for "standard" users. I have a few USB hard drives for this that I rotate through. (Yes, we understand...
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Bob1967, in our case we have mobile and remote users so we cannot redirect home directories for everyone. But you make a very good point.
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
Shawn9726 wrote: Use pkzip to span across 1.44MB floppies. It will only take 21,334 for a 30GB image. :) I'm kidding, of course. 1.44MB? Wow that's fancy. I was thinking 360KB floppies. Would then...
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John773 wrote: Throw them on a Server 2012 box and turn on Dedupe? Use something like Mirage to manage backups and imaging that has its own dedupe functionality. Just backup the profile/documents?...
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I built a moosefs cluster to store archived stuff. www.moosefs.org Opens a new window Commodity hard drives are so cheap, moosefs handles the rest.
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
I agree with the guys before. Mount the latest backup, copy the profile folder and any other user-specific data and delete the backup. it will save you about 70% of the space on average. And you can...
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I would say buy another hard drive and reload the image. Hard drives are cheap enough now days. If you need to access the data, you can plug the old drive onto a machine.
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
Thanks everyone for the great points and idea's. I haven't addressed the policy yet as to why we keep the image and not just the data and email. We do have our users pointed to their own Network...
View ArticleSymantec ghost images are just too big. What do you do with them?
Captain Jack wrote: We do have our users pointed to their own Network share, however only about %60 use them consistently. Look into folder redirection if you have a windows Domain. You can set a...
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