Re: Norton Ghost 9.0

From: Louise (none_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/21/05 

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:09:57 -0400

In article <Xns965B6510955D0abcxyzcom@127.0.0.1>, abc@xyz.com says...
> Chas_G <chasg@DELETE_THIS.elmstead.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
> news:40to8114mquc5fcc9jm5j8bfnj3dibdo2v@4ax.com:
>
> > I've received an email from Symantec advertising 'Norton Ghost 9.0'.
> > Symantec states that it is an advanced program which offers a backup
> > to the computer and gives protection. It sounds interesting but costs
> > £29 and I wonder if it is worth using Norton Ghost.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience of this program? I would value any
> > comments.
> >
> > Many thanks.
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chas_G
>
>
> For convenience, I prefer the Acronis product. However, for fine-grained
> control (especially from the command line version) nothing beats Norton
> Ghost.
>
> I haven't used Ghost 9 - as near as I can tell it's an attempt to catch up
> with some of the convenience features of Acronis (e.g., live backup while
> working, mounting of a backup image as a virtual drive, etc.). However, it
> appears to suffer somewhat from the classic Symantec problem: bloat.
>
> Ghost 8.2 from diskettes (remember those?) with lots of switches is what I
> use to back up encrypted OTFE HDs (switches for MBR preservation, etc.)
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
>
I used an older version of Ghost to move to another hard drive but found
it intolerable as a backup. I used Dantz Retrospect Pro instead.

Then I wanted to have full disk images and bought Ghost 9. To my
surprise, because I'm not too fond of symantec anymore, Ghost 9 is an
excellent program.

You can clone a disk. You can also create a drive image and then Ghost
will divide that image into small enough parts to enable you to burn it
to DVDs, or even CDs, along with a burn to an external hard drive.

It is also very easy (and even user friendly), to restore a particular
file or folder.

Louise

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