Supported formats include VMWare Workstation, VMWare ESX, Microsoft Virtual Server and Microsoft Hyper-V. Perhaps more excitingly, you can convert Ghost disk images into virtual hard drives. So what’s new? There’s official support for Windows 7: all very reassuring, but the last edition seemed to cope just fine anyway. And you can schedule backups to take place regularly, so there’s no need to worry that you’ll forget. As you’d expect, not only can you make an image of an entire disk or partition, you can also make incremental and differential backups (backing up to an existing image only those things which have changed since the last time). With it, you can create backups of a disk or a partition and then use Ghost (or its bootable recovery disk) to restore your PC from those backups as the need arises. At £34 per client, though, it’s not cheap, and for home use we’d have preferred to trade some of Ghost’s “Professional” sophistications for a more accessible interface.Version 15 of Norton Ghost does everything its predecessors could. This manageable approach, coupled with Ghost’s reassuring approach to offsite backups, makes the package well worth a look for anyone running a small office. You can also set up and launch backup and restore jobs across multiple networked PCs – though note you’ll need a licence for each machine. The software can also be set to run batch files or VBScripts before or after a backup job – handy if you need to close down an application to back up its data files.Īs with many modern imaging packages, Ghost lets you mount images as virtual drives in Windows, or convert them into VMware or Hyper-V volumes for access within a virtual machine. Incremental backups can be scheduled, or triggered by events such as a user logging off or Symantec raising its “ThreatCon” virus alert to a user-specified level. If your offsite storage happens to be unavailable, you can specify a fallback destination, or let Ghost upload the backup as and when the original host becomes available again. We also like the offsite backup feature, which can mirror your backups to a remote destination at the same time as they’re written to a local disk. The Ghost bootable CD environment is the most versatile we’ve seen, allowing you to slipstream storage and wired network drivers into the package as required, along with signature updates for the built-in virus scanner. It’s arranged largely around settings rather than actions, and each of the main tabs exposes a completely different (and rather unpredictable) interface.Īt the same time, Norton does have some strengths over Acronis’ package. True Image Home also makes Ghost also feel rather clunky to use. Nor is online storage integrated into the package. Most glaringly, there’s nothing here to match Acronis’ Nonstop Backup service, which maintains an almost real time roll-back history of changes to files and folders. That makes it a rival to Acronis True Image Home 2010 but it’s not a direct equivalent. Norton Ghost has come a long way once a simple disk cloning tool, it now combines extensive imaging features with incremental backup at the disk, partition and file level, to deliver what Symantec calls “professional grade backup”.
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