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29 Oct 2010
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Type: Time limited demo
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Manufacturer: Symantec
Size: 120MB
Number of Downloads: 6035
Price: £39.99
We all know that backing up our data is important. Most of us select the files and folders that we deem most important to our work and set up an automatic backup schedule so that these files are stored on our server at the end of every day or working week. However, what happens if your entire system goes down? You then need to spend hours finding your original installation CDs, re-installing your software, setting up and configuring the installed software and then finding that your preferences, fonts and other system files are missing. Did you remember to back up purchased fonts? Probably not.
One solution is to forget about backing up key and important data and backup your entire drive. If you choose to backup using an incremental or differential option, only the files you’ve amended since the last backup, will be backed up. Therefore you could run a full drive backup at the end of every working day and, if you experience a major system crash, simply restore the backed up drive, along with your installed software, work, fonts, preferences and more.
Norton Ghost will take a snapshot of your current system and then restore that to a previous state, at a later date. For instance, backup your drive, install software, test, find it affects the performance of your system, then quickly use Ghost to revert back to a previous state, without having to bother sorting out and uninstalling the software from your system.
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FILE AND FOLDER BACKUP IS USELESS
I don't back up my entire drive because I have too much stuff and it takes too long to back everything up, so I've been relying on the file and folder feature. I just got bit by a virus and now I find that this feature is worthless and I've yet to get back everything. If you want to back up just selected files and folders, do not use ghost!!
Posted by: nwill 30 Nov 2008
Restore over wireless network
Using Ghost 12 or 14 I can backup to a LaCie ethernet disk, no problem. Recovering over a Wireless network (Packard Bell Easynote 46) is not possible so far. I included the WLAN drivers in the Recovery Boot Disk, but I can't see the network disk in recovery mode;
Posted by: Mark Noppe 03 Jul 2008
online backup
Ghost 14 can take backup to ftp servers within a local network.It will not be able to take backup to a online FTP servers. vnunet.com comment: are you sure? According to Symantec, Ghost 14 "copies recovery points to a FTP site for easier offsite backup management". By offsite management, this states that the FTP server is away from your local network and office.
Posted by: shashank 20 Apr 2008
Ghost
I am from Belgium and I still work with Ghost 10 as the best system but 12 also works without flaws. The same alternative is Save and Restore 2.0 is still the BEST because I have not found functions of it that do NOT work,they work as they should. This program is recommended and I renew my Windows XP every month to keep it running fresh and smooth all from a usb external disk.
Posted by: guido bono 05 Mar 2008
Older Ghost is best
...because it drops down to DOS to do the "backup", so all windows files are available. The "shadow" copy method that leaves Windows running is more likely to cause problems. Older (2003) Ghost is better.
Posted by: Ghost in the Machine 24 Jul 2007
XP/Vista only!
This version of Ghost dumped all previous OS supoprt except for XP and added Vista support. Also worth noting is Symantec's customer support is non-existant. Search their site for an hour for a phone number and you have to email them and they give you a call id number and estimated wait (my wait time was 45 mins). Then I find out its 9.95 per tech support call!!! hung up right there and was forced to use an old copy of ghost from 2003.
Posted by: ghost12sucks 24 Jul 2007