Backup Software - Drive Image, V2i, Restore over net... NOT

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Drive Image, V2i, Restore over net... NOT

Kenneth

2004-09-28, 5:46 pm

Howdy,

I run Drive Image 7 and V2i Protector on five networked systems.

Despite many hours of assistance from competent folks from Powerquest
(the sellers of the software at the time we purchased) we have never
been able to boot from the recovery CDs and find the remote systems on
the network.

I was just about to contact Symantec (the current sellers of the
software) to continue the struggle, but then had another thought.

In the event of a disaster, could I not just install Windows from the
CD, then install Drive Image from the CD, then restore over the
network? (That is, restore from within Windows rather than restoring
from the Powerquest Recovery Environment CD?)

It certainly would not be as convenient, but it would seem to save me
the continuing hassle of struggling with Symantec to get their
products to work as described.

Thanks for any comments,

--
Kenneth

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Jim Sherman

2004-10-02, 8:46 pm

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:19:07 -0400, Kenneth
<usenet@SPAMLESSsoleassociates.com> wrote:

>I was just about to contact Symantec (the current sellers of the
>software) to continue the struggle, but then had another thought.
I feel your pain.

>In the event of a disaster, could I not just install Windows from the
>CD, then install Drive Image from the CD, then restore over the
>network? (That is, restore from within Windows rather than restoring
>from the Powerquest Recovery Environment CD?)
I just had to do that.

>It certainly would not be as convenient, but it would seem to save me
>the continuing hassle of struggling with Symantec to get their
>products to work as described.

I can tell you that the (AFAIK) latest V2i isn't worth a bag of dog
crap. I say (AFAIK) because I'm just a mere mortal who purchased the
product just before it got sold and now has no support from
Slime-mantec. They condescended to send me 2.0.4.403 after I bitched
constantly for a month. It couldn't see my IDE drives! Much less the
RAID or SATA.

Then 2 days ago Live Update for NAV croaked my system to the point
that IE wouldn't work for Windows update. So I uninstalled Win2k and
did a clean install (with PC-Cillin). Then I installed the above
release. It actually backed up four whole drives - and now it can't
see my drives again. Partition Magic can. The previous V2i 2.03
release can (it causes BSODs on reboots now and then, of course).
Hell, everything on my system can see the damn drives except the
"backup" program. I'm disgusted. I have dumped every other
Slime-mantec POS I had installed.

I wish you the very best of luck. You will need it.

Paul E.

2004-10-16, 2:45 am

When you boot from the restore CD it defaults to the "WORKGROUP" workgroup,
so it won't see anything else not in that workgroup, IIRC.

I've always been able to make the recovery CD attach to my remote shares
using absolute IP address, i.e.,

\\192.168.168.100\MySharedCDrive

You may also need to use the recovery CD "utils" to "map network drive" and
map a Y: drive to the absolute IP address path like I specified above. Then
restore from the Y: drive. That works every time for me.

You are correct though, the recovery CD network neighborhood seems flakey
and is very slow.

-- Paul

"Kenneth" <usenet@SPAMLESSsoleassociates.com> wrote in message
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>
> Howdy,
>
> I run Drive Image 7 and V2i Protector on five networked systems.
>
> Despite many hours of assistance from competent folks from Powerquest
> (the sellers of the software at the time we purchased) we have never
> been able to boot from the recovery CDs and find the remote systems on
> the network.
>
> I was just about to contact Symantec (the current sellers of the
> software) to continue the struggle, but then had another thought.
>
> In the event of a disaster, could I not just install Windows from the
> CD, then install Drive Image from the CD, then restore over the
> network? (That is, restore from within Windows rather than restoring
> from the Powerquest Recovery Environment CD?)
>
> It certainly would not be as convenient, but it would seem to save me
> the continuing hassle of struggling with Symantec to get their
> products to work as described.
>
> Thanks for any comments,
>
> --
> Kenneth
>
> If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."

Kenneth

2004-10-16, 2:45 am

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:23:08 -0400, "Paul E." <paule@mindspring.com>
wrote:

>When you boot from the restore CD it defaults to the "WORKGROUP" workgroup,
>so it won't see anything else not in that workgroup, IIRC.
>
>I've always been able to make the recovery CD attach to my remote shares
>using absolute IP address, i.e.,
>
>\\192.168.168.100\MySharedCDrive
>
>You may also need to use the recovery CD "utils" to "map network drive" and
>map a Y: drive to the absolute IP address path like I specified above. Then
>restore from the Y: drive. That works every time for me.
>
>You are correct though, the recovery CD network neighborhood seems flakey
>and is very slow.
>
>-- Paul
>
>
>"Kenneth" <usenet@SPAMLESSsoleassociates.com> wrote in message
> news:59ajl0treoni0t6n21ohnluujpduu0bfip@
4ax.com...
>

Hi Paul,

I neglected to post here that the problem was eventually solved. It
was suggested to me (and please remember that this was after months of
effort on and off) that I might have a software firewall that was
blocking the "intrusion" from the CD.

That was the problem, and now, all works just fine...

All the best,

--
Kenneth

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