Backup Software for laptops

[Tony Bag o Donuts]

Originally Posted by shaun0207

Thanks Geekster!

I did that to begin with so I would know where the backup file is and its still not working.

Any other ideas? I've also gotten erro messages saying it cant reach the service agent. So I hook it up to my wifi at home and it still didnt work.

give cobian a try for backing up your data....

[shaun0207]

Originally Posted by Tony Bag o Donuts

give cobian a try for backing up your data....

Gonna look into that too.

[Geekster]

Originally Posted by shaun0207

Hey RB:

I trying out Norton Ghost 14 (got a copy from my friend). Everytime I time try to do a backup to my External HDD or to a Dual Layer DVD, I get a error saying "The connection to the recovery agent was lost. This window will close."

Then I reestablish the connection like it tells me too and does the samething again.

Any ideas?

From the Ghost Readme, it looks like it uses RPC:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis..._12_readme.htm

Remote management

If you are using the one-to-one management feature, review the
following key points:

* You cannot deploy the Norton Ghost Agent to Windows Vista.
You must manually install the agent to computers that are running
Windows Vista. After you have manually installed the agent, you can
then use Norton Ghost to remotely manage the Windows Vista computer.
* If you deploy the Norton Ghost Agent to a computer that is
already running LiveState Recovery 6.0 or Norton Ghost 10, the older
product is automatically uninstalled without warning. Backup jobs and
histories are also automatically deleted.

================ SEE HERE ===================

* You might receive a reconnect error when trying to manage a
second computer.

To resolve this issue, use Windows Firewall to open TCP port 135
on both the source and target computers, and then try the connection
again.

==========================================
* You might receive a reconnect error when trying to manage a
second computer. This error message appears in the status bar of the
product user interface:

Connecting to agent on <remote computer name/IP address>. You do
not have sufficient privileges to perform this operation.

This error might occur because Distributed COM (DCOM) is
disabled on the computer.

Sorry for delay! D*mn customers keep coming in & keeping me from important stuff!!! Is this the "error" you are getting?

[shaun0207]

Originally Posted by Geekster

From the Ghost Readme, it looks like it uses RPC:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis..._12_readme.htm

Remote management

If you are using the one-to-one management feature, review the
following key points:

* You cannot deploy the Norton Ghost Agent to Windows Vista.
You must manually install the agent to computers that are running
Windows Vista. After you have manually installed the agent, you can
then use Norton Ghost to remotely manage the Windows Vista computer.
* If you deploy the Norton Ghost Agent to a computer that is
already running LiveState Recovery 6.0 or Norton Ghost 10, the older
product is automatically uninstalled without warning. Backup jobs and
histories are also automatically deleted.

================ SEE HERE ===================

* You might receive a reconnect error when trying to manage a
second computer.

To resolve this issue, use Windows Firewall to open TCP port 135
on both the source and target computers, and then try the connection
again.

==========================================
* You might receive a reconnect error when trying to manage a
second computer. This error message appears in the status bar of the
product user interface:

Connecting to agent on <remote computer name/IP address>. You do
not have sufficient privileges to perform this operation.

This error might occur because Distributed COM (DCOM) is
disabled on the computer.

Sorry for delay! D*mn customers keep coming in & keeping me from important stuff!!! Is this the "error" you are getting?

Yes it is! Thank You so much. I'm gonna try those steps now. The only thing I dont understand is the first parts about manually installing the Norton Ghost Agent. I will resinstall and maybe it will give me that option.

[shaun0207]

Still not working. I have to version of Ghost 14 (1 warez- wont talk bout that one and 1 copy of the official disc from the IT guy at my job). Neither one will let me do a backup or create a recovery disc. I keep getting the same message about it not finding the host.

I just had to send back my 160GB WD passport where I was storing the image because of and connector issue. Maybe that was the problem. The drive kept disconnecting by itself. A new one should be here today. I will try it again when it gets here.

I have no problem going out and buying the official disc. I jsut want to make sure it will do exactly what I need it to do before I do that. I will need to create recovery disc for all 6 of my computers (2 desktops and 4 laptops). No use buying the disc if I cant get it to work yet.

Any ideas?

[magicman08]

i donno, i went with norton ghost 10.0 like a year ago or so, and the crappin drive wouldn't boot, and it was a 1/1 copy....so be careful, make sure you test things out.

The data was there, but it wouldn't boot to windows on that drive.