The Gigabyte recovery utility appears to store the archive only on the HD, not on a network drive.
No I haven't tried Ghost. I wonder if there is a spec somewhere on which ethernet chips it supports, and whether it will do a sector by sector clone? No easy way to test it really, nondestructively
One way forward, IF one can find a way using Trueimage, would be to install a rather more common ethernet adaptor... I suspect TI does actually work if one uses the FreeBSD boot CD afterwards to fix up the MBR. We will find out on Monday...
BTW I have finally done a disk "clone" using Trueimage, with both SSDs on the same SATA controller, which ought to "just work", but it still boots only to Windows. What the hell does Trueimage call "cloning"?
Re the Thinkpad business, Trueimage can see the recovery partition allright and seems to archive it OK, but it cannot restore it.