Is there a way to start a Ghost backup task from another application using for example COM or an API? I am writing an application and I would like to have an option on my menu to allow the user to perform a backup of data to CD using Ghost  :)

@ Software Monkey


Software Monkey wrote on Mar 10^th, 2012 at 11:22am:

Is there a way to start a Ghost backup task from another application using for example COM or an API?

You don't mention what version of Ghost you are working with--that may change what can or can't be done.

Don't know if this is helpful--this was something brought to light 6-7 years ago, and had to do with Ghost 10--I'm not sure similar capabilities are still shipped with current Ghost 15.  To my knowledge, none of the Ghost 10 users have ever posted any attempts to use the apparent VB scripting ability of Ghost 10:

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1140461106

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1150961835

http://groups.google.com/group/symantec.customerservice.general/browse_thread/thread/47bca281bcb09533/b3b081f5045ff4d5?hl=en#b3b081f5045ff4d5

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter

Maybe these references will point you in a usable direction.