Drive imaging software and licencing

NightShadow · 2 Dec 2008 at 15:06

Hiya people,

Hope someone can help with this. I need to make a drive image of several PCs to a USB drive for backup purposes should a drive fail in one of the PCs some time in the future. I have looked at Acronis and Norton Ghost etc but from what I can tell I would have to buy 1 licence for every PC I make a backup of. Can anybody reccommend some decent software that will allow me to boot from CD and backup several PC to an image file on a USB device without the need for separate licences. I wouldn't normally worry if it was personal use but as this is for business use I would like to make sure its all legit.

NS

bledd · 2 Dec 2008 at 15:10

you can contact acronis directly for a technician licence iirc

NightShadow · 2 Dec 2008 at 15:30

Have just spoken to Acronis and they only offer individual licences

NS

bledd · 2 Dec 2008 at 16:14

oh, i googled 'acronis technician licence' and it came up with a link on wilders security (this is where acronis have their forums) and someone replied saying to contact the enterprise sales team..

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/index.php/t-152712.html

coupe69 · 2 Dec 2008 at 23:49

I use ghost on a daily basis, all you need to do is buy the latest version of the software. Once purchased you can use it on as many machines as you like. It's not like you're installing ghost on each pc, you're only using it to create and restore images on the machines in question.

bledd · 3 Dec 2008 at 14:22

coupe69 said:
I use ghost on a daily basis, all you need to do is buy the latest version of the software. Once purchased you can use it on as many machines as you like. It's not like you're installing ghost on each pc, you're only using it to create and restore images on the machines in question.

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