[rosew28]

I run a Micros POS system for a restaurant. I need to back up the whole drive including the system program. In case the computer crashed, I need to have some kind of bootable recovery disc in addition to the data I back up every week. Without that I would have to call the company to install the software and they charge thousands of dollars to do this. Can anyone please tell me how to do this? Thanks a million in advance.

 

[DaveBurnett]

Symantec Ghost, Paragon drive Backup,Symantec Drive Image, all much of a muchness. I prefer Ghost.

 

[rosew28]

Dave. Thanks for the reply. I am new to this forum and I posted a quick reply but it did not show anywhere so I am doing this again. If you see similar messages somewhere, that's why.
God forbid if this computer ever crashed, can I just copy everything from the backup disk made with Symantec Ghost into the new computer and the system should run like it always does?

 

[AKA Arizona]

Ghost is the way to go and yes to question ^ a mirror image its great. I have a mirror image of some very basic OS's with some extra stuff I have tweeked and software, a customer comes in wanting a new HD and In less than 30 minutes I have them up and running with a new drive with an OS ready to go...........

 

[DaveBurnett]

You must remember that Ghost takes a full image and can only be safely restored to an Identical machine. Although you can get at any data from the backup.

 

[AKA Arizona]

identical or similar will work it just goes through the new harware procces....

 

[rosew28]

THanks guys.
I will try to install Ghost this Sat. Will let you know what comes of it.