<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I can't say we actually had it as part of our disaster recovery plan but I can vouch that it works. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV>The third attempt was the charm during the process of migration to CM 5.1. I used it as a quick restoration method. After the first problem with DMA, I used the Ghost image to roll things back to 4.1 then the second attempt I restored the ghost image and them restored bars. I just always made sure to have a BARS file just in case ghost flaked out since I'm sure Cisco doesn't officially support ghost in any way.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I didn't have any difficulties with it. It was no different than any other machine I'd used ghost with. It was just slow as hell when doing it on the machine directly. What I found out worked better was to put the drive into another computer to do the imaging. I used an external USB case hooked up to a different machine.</DIV></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>jeff</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 17, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Scott Voll wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>CM 4.1.... I pull a mirrored drive every couple months then do nightly backups with BARS. if something went wrong, restore the mirror and recover from BARS is my plan. But Thank God I've never had to do it to this point. (knocking on wood ;-) </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott<BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Cucumber Green</B> <<A href="mailto:greencucumber2007@yahoo.com">greencucumber2007@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <DIV>Hello</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Has anyone used Ghost to keep an image of your MCS servers in order to use it in case of a server crash? If so, did it work, are there any caveats, tips?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If not using Ghost, whats your disaster recovery procedure to restore an MCS crashed server ( other than a full reinstall ).</DIV><SPAN class="ad"> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1"> Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! <BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48223/*http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow" target="_blank">Play Monopoly Here and Now </A> (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>cisco-voip mailing list<BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net </A><BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">cisco-voip mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>