When I Right click on drive > Recover Drive... > I would like it not to Verify recovery point before restore because I figure the process would be faster?
Hi c627627,
Though it would be faster I would recommend that you do not disable the option to Verify before restore. In the event that the recovery point has a problem I don't think you would want to attempt restoring that image.
Even more importantly is to configure your backup jobs to automatically Verify after the backup is completed.
Best wishes.
Allen
Hi c627627,
What version of Ghost do you have? You can find this by clicking on Help > About. Please give the entire version number shown there as well.
Thanks
Allen
Very well, I do not have access at the moment but I believe it was 15.0.1.36526.
As to my question, I think it goes back to how (in my humble opinion) unbelievable it is that no Drive Image program on the market offers us the ability to set up both backup and recovery options and thereafter use one click back up restore.
For say a Windows 7/XP dual boot, you would simply use superfast reboot program to reboot into one OS partition and image the other one. But no, it is a needlessly complicated process which contains the verification process, which is perfectly OK for maybe most people but:
why no options for the rest of us? We need speed for when we make minute changes to our frequent drive image backups. We need speed for when we test things. Powerquest Drive Image 2002 for FAT32 is the only program I ever tested that could somewhat do that (and I tried every Drive Imaging program I could get my hands on).
I am guessing this option cannot be turned off then?
Hi c627627,
Thanks for the information.
Yes you can uncheck the verify before recovery if you want to. Right click on the entry from the wizard and select "Custom Recovery".
See image below.
You also have a Custom button on the screen you posted.
Best wishes.
Allen
I still use drive image on a few of my systems and it's not just for fat32. From DOS it can only write an image onto a fat32 partition but it can image an NTFS partition fine or even load and boot the virtual floppy image from one.
But I agree with you on wanting to restore images as quickly as possible sometimes.
On my test system I can boot into the ghost recovery console from either a flash drive or SDHC card and quickly image or restore images without running verifications. To restore an image there is one box I have to uncheck to skip the verification and when I do a cold image but default it will not verify the image unless you check a box.
Overall, I think Ghost is a little faster even counting the extra click to skip verification.
(two clicks in your case, one from the recovery console)
Dave
Yes, of course.
But the entire point of this thread question is to save time, by the time you custom select it, browse to files etc, etc, etc.
What is the reason that recovery point verification is mandatory for restoring previously set up recoveries? People do use Norton Ghost for frequent reimaging, for testing purposes, etc..
It's not mandatory, otherwise you couldn't skip it.
It's reccomended because if your restoring a system partition, not only would it waste a lot of time if the image was corrupted but it would leave you in worse shape. You would have lost your working installation.
Dave
DaveH wrote:You would have lost your working installation.
c627627,
We've seen this several times in forums. An image that failed to restore after just deleting the working partition. It's up to you whether you want to take a chance.
I think you guys missed the point.
I would never do this on anything but a test system where specific operations are performed which do not require the kind of time-consuming measures we need to protect our primary systems.
We are talking about there being no options to set things up the way users would like to set things up for their own specific use... What is the reason users are prevented to set things up the way they want? We are not talking about default options here.
Do you want a one click image, one click restore process? Well, Ghost 15 can do automated imaging if that satisfies but it can't do one click restores. Ghost 2003 can do that and there is a long thread here describing various ways to set it up. A few other apps can do one click restores but this is a Symantec forum.
Yes, Ghost can do one click save - and that is great.
I understand you're saying Ghost 2003 is the only version of Ghost which can also do one click restore? But older versions of Drive Imaging software are not 100% compatible with modern chipsets, are they? Can they work with Socket 1366 and i7 systems and modern hard drives?
I'm not a Ghost 2003 user although I play with it occasionally in test situations. It does have problems with newer hardware and I wouldn't recommend using it with your main computer although I have several friends who are using it on their main computer.
Here is that long thread that includes using automated restores.