Restore an image using GhostCast Server

Restore an image using GhostCast Server

If you want to restore an image of your hard disk it can be done in several ways. A way to do this is to boot the computer from a Symantec Ghost floppy disk to restore the image by multicasting, unicasting, disk to disk or peer to peer.

So, the first thing you have to do is to create a Symantec Ghost boot disk. This boot disk lets the computer not boot to Windows but boots the Symantec Ghost utility in DOS.

How to do the restoring using GhostCast server?
GhostCast server is a utility of the Symantec Ghost software.
Using GhostCast server you can create images of computers in the network or you can restore images to several connected clients at the same time. The only thing you have to do is to boot all the clients with a Symantec Ghost boot disk, then you accept all the connected clients in the GhostCast server utility and then you simply send the image to all connected clients.

By following the next steps you can restore an image of a computer using GhostCast server.

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Step 1:
First you have to make sure that each computer of which you want to restore an image to, is connected to the network. Of course the GhostCast server computer has to be connected as well.

Boot each client from the Symantec Ghost boot disk.

Now return to your GhostCast server computer and start the GhostCast server utility by clicking Start -> Programs -> Symantec Ghost -> GhostCast server.
The next screen is shown.

Step 2:
Here you have to enter a session name in the 'Session Name box'.Type for example 'Restore'.

Then you enable the 'Restore Image' option to restore an image from the clients.

Then you click the 'Browse' button to browse to search for an image you want to restore.

If you want to restore an image to the entire hard disk of the client you select the 'Disk' option. Do you want to restore an image to a particular partition you select the 'Partition' option. (In this example I describe how to restore an image to an entire disk).

Then you click the 'Accept Clients' button.

Now GhostCast server waits for the clients to connect.

You can see that there are no clients connected until now.

Step 3:
Now you go to the client which is booted in Symantec Ghost and you click (or by keyboard) 'GhostCast' -> 'Unicast'.

The next screen is shown.

Step 4:
In this screen you enter the session name as given in GhostCast Server (in my example 'Restore').
Leave the option 'Discovery Method' on 'Automatic' and click 'Ok'.
The next screen is shown.

Step 5:
In this screen you select the drive where the image must be restored to.
Click 'Ok'.
The next screen is shown.

Step 6:
In this screen you see the destination drive details.
Click 'Ok'.
The next screen is shown.

Step 7:
Here you confirm to restore the image from your GhostCast Server to the local hard disk of the client you have chosen.
Click 'Yes'.

Now Symantec Ghost is waiting for you to click the 'Send' button in GhostCast Server.

Step 8:
So, return to the GhostCast Server computer and click the 'Send' button.
After you clicked 'Send' the image will be restored to the location you chose on the client.
You can see the details in GhostCast Server, as shown in the picture below.

After the GhostCast progress is 100 % your image is restored and you can close GhostCast Server.

If you start the client computer you will see that everything is exactly back is it was created in the image.

You have successful restored your Ghost image using GhostCast Server!!

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