uptown47
Lifetime Supporting Member
Hi all,
We have 2 SCADA PCs on site. One of them blew a PSU today and, although this was quickly replaced, it highlighted the fact that if it had been the hard drive that went we would have been in trouble.
I thought about buying a couple of PCs, and then making a 'ghost image' of each of the existing PCs and transferring it on to the new PCs. Then keep them as backups in case the original PCs go into fault.
Has anyone done this before? The PCs are running WinCC SCADA and I wondered whether a ghost image would get everything off the PC (i.e. licenses, port settings etc) in order to make the copy PC work correctly. Also, what ghost software would work best. These PCs are quite old and I don't want to install some large image making software only to have it conflict with the SCADA that is running on the PC at the moment (they are both on Windows XP as well).
Many thanks for any info on experiences / advice you have with this.
We have 2 SCADA PCs on site. One of them blew a PSU today and, although this was quickly replaced, it highlighted the fact that if it had been the hard drive that went we would have been in trouble.
I thought about buying a couple of PCs, and then making a 'ghost image' of each of the existing PCs and transferring it on to the new PCs. Then keep them as backups in case the original PCs go into fault.
Has anyone done this before? The PCs are running WinCC SCADA and I wondered whether a ghost image would get everything off the PC (i.e. licenses, port settings etc) in order to make the copy PC work correctly. Also, what ghost software would work best. These PCs are quite old and I don't want to install some large image making software only to have it conflict with the SCADA that is running on the PC at the moment (they are both on Windows XP as well).
Many thanks for any info on experiences / advice you have with this.