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anyone use acronis
- Thread starter McBunny
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cock mobile.
yeah it does seem very good so far but its not cheap
just downloading my licensed copy now
The good stuff isn't
I was doing an evaluation of Double Take the other week, thought yes this is spot on but was shocked by the price.
Still bought it though
We use Thin Clients which come with free Altiris licences
As for laptops/desktops/servers myself and my boss aren't fans of imaging - we prefer fresh builds. As such we(I) use nLite to make silent install CDs with all the drivers on...
do you have a team of more than one person ?
ChrisR
ClioSport Club Member
Place I'm at now badly needs a proper imaging solution, they've got some lash up of Ghost now which does the job and it good for rebuilding at the users desktop but little else.
I've always used Ghost Enterprise/Solution suite and I know another guy here is pushing for Altiris, but what do people here recommend, Acronis and doubletake?
Just finished updating the images today for the desktop team
What happens if/when you need to build 100 machines? Or do one that's at another office? All a user has to do at ourplace to get their machine rebuilt is hit F12 on bootup and the system does the rest and automatically sticks the right image on. Less than 10 minutes and they are back up and running with a base build. Doubt I'd have even got from my desk to my car in that time if I had to go visit site
I like images as they are consistant, 1 image for 1 machine type, you know noone is going to stuff it up by doing something stupid.
I've always used Ghost Enterprise/Solution suite and I know another guy here is pushing for Altiris, but what do people here recommend, Acronis and doubletake?
Just finished updating the images today for the desktop team
What happens if/when you need to build 100 machines? Or do one that's at another office? All a user has to do at ourplace to get their machine rebuilt is hit F12 on bootup and the system does the rest and automatically sticks the right image on. Less than 10 minutes and they are back up and running with a base build. Doubt I'd have even got from my desk to my car in that time if I had to go visit site
I like images as they are consistant, 1 image for 1 machine type, you know noone is going to stuff it up by doing something stupid.
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Better than yours. C*nt.
It's what documentation is for. All of our applications are delivered through Citrix so for Thin Clients the build process takes 5 minutes. If/When we need to build 100 machines, our WAN links vary between 256Kb and 2Mb, which you couldn't deploy an image down - not without pissing everyone else off!
ChrisR
ClioSport Club Member
Yeah you wouldn't bother for thin clients, and for remote sites we just have one of the servers at that site setup to do the images, the machines connect to their site's server.
we use ghost for desktop imaging and altiris (well HP RDP) for the server deployment, have a redhat image prebuilt and can have the blade server up and running within 10 mins of it arriving through the door, love it.
Just been implementing 18 blades for a customer and he had some windows andsome linux, built two images and deployed all 18 servers in a morning, gotta love it.
Just been implementing 18 blades for a customer and he had some windows andsome linux, built two images and deployed all 18 servers in a morning, gotta love it.
