Statement: The following post is based on my grasp of more than 90% of the full SymantecGhostEnterprise7.5 functionality, and is definitely not a fantasy.
Compared with the request for a Chinese-localized edition, or the request to Chinese-localize the Ghost Client-side software (the difficulty is far too high; Ghost uses its own character output functions in the graphical interface, so Chinese localization would mean rewriting that part of the code), I think the following project is of more practical significance. If you're interested, please reply, and moderators please consider organizing it.
Project origin:
As everyone knows, if you want to do multicast with the Enterprise edition of Ghost, you must upload the GHO image file. If the data to be cloned reaches dozens of GB, then just uploading the image file takes several hours. Not only does it waste hard disk space, it also seriously affects work efficiency. If the purpose is only cloning rather than backup, this is really unnecessary.
Another method is the point-to-point mode that does not require creating an image, but it can only do one-to-one, not one-to-many. There does not seem to be such a function in similar software either.
Alright, as someone who has long used 3comPXE+SymantecGhost, I came up with this idea:
If there were a program that, after running, stayed resident in memory and according to the given parameters virtualized the entire hard disk or a certain partition into an image file, then by using the DOS version multicast server, it would be possible to complete the task of direct multicast without creating an image.
To do this, the most important thing is to understand the GHO file format (it is only necessary to understand the uncompressed format), intercept GHOST.EXE's reading of the image file, and instead return information read from the corresponding physical disk.
Mission Impossible?
Who Can Finish This Job?
Compared with the request for a Chinese-localized edition, or the request to Chinese-localize the Ghost Client-side software (the difficulty is far too high; Ghost uses its own character output functions in the graphical interface, so Chinese localization would mean rewriting that part of the code), I think the following project is of more practical significance. If you're interested, please reply, and moderators please consider organizing it.
Project origin:
As everyone knows, if you want to do multicast with the Enterprise edition of Ghost, you must upload the GHO image file. If the data to be cloned reaches dozens of GB, then just uploading the image file takes several hours. Not only does it waste hard disk space, it also seriously affects work efficiency. If the purpose is only cloning rather than backup, this is really unnecessary.
Another method is the point-to-point mode that does not require creating an image, but it can only do one-to-one, not one-to-many. There does not seem to be such a function in similar software either.
Alright, as someone who has long used 3comPXE+SymantecGhost, I came up with this idea:
If there were a program that, after running, stayed resident in memory and according to the given parameters virtualized the entire hard disk or a certain partition into an image file, then by using the DOS version multicast server, it would be possible to complete the task of direct multicast without creating an image.
To do this, the most important thing is to understand the GHO file format (it is only necessary to understand the uncompressed format), intercept GHOST.EXE's reading of the image file, and instead return information read from the corresponding physical disk.
Mission Impossible?
Who Can Finish This Job?