Problems creating a disk or ISO.

[SailorJerry]

I may not have an option here, but I've expended my searching and figured I'd try this here.  My company has a Ghost Solution Suite 3.3 license.  I'm a remote employee that only has access to a Windows 7 device.  From what I understand I can't install the entire Suite, but I can install the standard tools.  I'd like to create an ISO of an image of a Windows 10 build that I need to replicate.  I built the boot disk that launches Symantec Ghost at start-up, and am able to build an image that outputs 6 GHS files, but I'm stuck there.  What am I missing?

[CraigEV]

What sort of error are you receiving?

[SailorJerry]

I did have a few errors when I was installing the standard tools on my Win7 device, but reinstall fixed those.  The issue is when I run the ghost boot and select drive to image, I only get GHS files, which I can't seem to use without the Solutions Suite unless I'm mistaken.  Is there a way to convert those to an ISO from the standard tools so I can burn a disk?

[SailorJerry]

Ok. strike that, I spun up a VM wiht Server 2012, then installed GSS.  Can I use the GSS console tobuild an image disk of the computer I used for the GHO GHS files?

[ShawnOfTheFarm]

So the GHO and GHS files are the image.   once you have an image then you can boot a new system to the same boot disk and then run the restore (disk from image rather than disk to image)  and restore your image. 

 

Sounds like you are just in the right place if you plan to use standard tools.   If you plan to use the console and manage your end points then you can build a job that runs your restore but for simplicity standard tools is a good way to use the product. 

Cheers. 

[ShawnOfTheFarm]

I haven't recorded the 3.3 videos on standard tools yet but I have for the console mostly.   See the following oh how to set up the back up and restore job.   There are also videos on how to boot to automation and have the agent communicate to the server (pxe, usb, automatin folder, ect) so that it can recieve a job.  Especially if it is a bare metal system or a dead system you would need some meathod of booting the system up and getting it to talk to the server. 

www.symantec.com/connect/videos/ghost-solution-suite-33-video-series-backup-and-restore-image

The full list I have put in a youtube play list and will keep adding to until I get all the things that seem important

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzKI8Y3zwNuCiGZ3QHrgih8n9R1L3Ef3s

[SailorJerry]

I need an all in one disk that launches and only prompts for the image I choose.  Any way I can wrap that up?

[SailorJerry]

Meaning, my device is offline.

[ShawnOfTheFarm]

You could build a custom scripted batch file that would execute ghost and then point to the image you have already created.   How script savey are you?   If you aren't then I would recomend that you install standard tools and use the ghost standard tools to make a boot disk that include ghost.  Then burn all your GHS and GHO files to DVD.  

 

Then boot from your standard tools boot disk.   It will launch ghost GUI by default and from there you can navigate to restore the disk from image and then browse to the first .GHO file. 

 

You could for in the future to make it simple to build your ghost image boot to the same standard tools boot disk and perform a disk to image job and select the destination of the DVD burner.  In ghost GUI it is @CDR  and then it will burn directly to the DVDs.     You will still need to include a ghost boot disk with your image set.   The image set will just be GHO and ghs files they are not bootable.   

 

There isn't a build in single step restore option with out doing a lot of heavy scripting but basic standard tools boot disks take and restore images all day with out the need to complicate things with the console and agents and so on. 

Hope that is helpful