Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out Symantec Norton Ghost 10.0 Email This Print This View My Personal Library Loading Zone January 2006 • Vol.6 Issue 1 Page(s) 76 in print issue Add To My Personal Library Symantec Norton Ghost 10.0 Jump to first occurrence of: [NORTON] [GHOST] [10.0] Norton Ghost 10.0 $69.99 Symantec www.symantec.com 4.5 CPU’s Imagine a backup program that automatically takes snapshots of your system, saving them incrementally in the background. When disaster strikes or you want to restore an old file, you jump back to one of the backups and let the app stitch together a restored system. Presto, you’re back in business. If you’re thinking this describes Norton GoBack, you’re right. But it also describes the latest incarnation of the venerable Norton Ghost, now at version 10.0. Ghost 10.0 seems nothing like earlier versions. This version (for Windows 2000/XP) makes creating whole-system backups painless and easy, not to mention almost totally automatic. This is as close to a RAID 1 (mirrored drive) emergency backup system as you can get in software. GoBack is essentially a way to roll your system back to a known good configuration should you encounter computer problems, such as a virus or spyware. Ghost can do this, too, but Ghost can also take those images and store them on external or secondary hard drives, network storage, or burnable DVDs or CDs, allowing for a recovery from a bad hard drive. The recovery takes longer than with the DOS-based Ghost 2003 (included in the box for Windows 98/Me machines), but the Windows recovery console-based bootable recovery CD can connect to USB 2.0, FireWire, and network drives much more reliably. The recovery disc can restore older Ghost images, too. Whereas Ghost 2003 had an interface only a techie could love, Ghost 10.0 shuns technical terms and employs wizards throughout. Want to schedule automatic backups at night with the files encrypted and stored on the LAN? Child’s play. As before, Ghost isn’t suitable for just backing up folders, and the new architecture makes deploying the same disk image across many identical machines slow. Still, those abilities make the app accessible to anyone. by Warren Ernst  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.