Symantec launches Ghost 10 with Recovery Points support
September 14th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 20 times, 1 so far today
Symantec launches Ghost 10 with Recovery Points support
Security Company Symantec has launched the latest version of their system recovery application in Norton Ghost 10. This update brings a major feature upgrade to its users as now they can set event-triggered recovery points. These recovery points are similar to snapshot of the drive at a particular time–like Windows operating system takes whenever a new application is being installed which has the potential of screwing up the whole setup.
This upgrade debuts this Windows System Restore sort of functionality and also lets the user reconcile recovery points to save storage space. Also new is the new reconciliation function, which enables the user to make incremental backups. This works even when the PC’s status has changed because of an unexpected hard boot or power failure.
The latest version of Norton Ghost supports 128-, 192- and 256-bit AES encryption strengths, shows the backup and recovery status for all drives on a system, and works with CDR/RW and DVD+R/RW drives, USB- and FireWire-connected backup, and Iomega Zip and Jaz drives. It is due to release later this month and would be sold in the retail market for a price of USD 70. Existing users can upgrade their versions for a bargain price of USD 50.
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September 17th, 2005 at 02:08 pm
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September 24th, 2005 at 05:05 am
I find that Acronis has much more compatibilty with most desktop/notebook configurations out there… the iomega driver that gets loaded in dos really sucks – and you have to scour the web to find workarounds (ie., other drivers)…
yes, ghost may be more customizable (more options) than True Image (Acronis); but these are more for Infra Admins, etc.
for me – stick to Acronis… more reliable…
October 13th, 2005 at 08:38 pm
Never could understand what all the fuss was about Acronis. The Linux boot CD spits out error messages on booting, the program hangs when scanning my disks, backup takes 5 times longer than with Ghost, there’s no option to automatically check the integrity of the image after backup, and it doesn’t support my dynamic disks.
As for Ghost, it has drivers for all my hardware out of the box and also supports dynamic disks. I’ve restored many Ghost images/recovery points, and it has never let me down yet.
January 16th, 2006 at 04:21 am
Actually I think Ghost 10 sucks.
I am sticking with Ghost 9, here’s why: I install my system, and drivers, then Ghost the system. I install the ‘known good’ programs, then Ghost it. I keep anything I want to keep OFF of the C drive, on a separate partition or better yet, a separate drive, so when I have an issue with the computer slowing down or acting funny, I restore to the last Ghost image.
I manually name my Ghost (9) images by placing them in subfolders with a name like 2005-0115_1228 to reflect the date and time, and the folders are automatically ordered by date (sort by name). Like Ghost 10.
Whenever I am going to change my system… I restore to the last Ghost image, install whatever programs I’m adding, then make a Ghost image immediately… like Ghost 10.
So you might think I’d like Ghost 10 which automagically does all that. The problems are that Ghost 10 backs up the system at times when I DON’T have the system running perfectly… not that big of a deal since I sometimes do that with Ghost 9 as well.
The problem is that GHOST 9 has never let me down, restore-wise. I’ve always been able to restore to a good spot with 9.
Not so with Ghost 10. I had a crash that left Ghost 10 unable to read it’s backups, and was getting
“Ghost is unable to reconcile changes made since last session”
error messages, and Ghost 10 could not restore the Ghost images. Now the images themselves were not corrupt, mind you, Ghost 10 just could not work with them. The system clock had changed and that seemed part of it. I couldn’t restore from the recovery environment to ANY previous image using Ghost 10, even manually browsing to the spot that had the image, etc… I had to re-install windows to the point where I could install programs, and even then (after reinstalling Ghost 10, Ghost 10 could not restore from the images.
Good luck though, Ghost 9 saved the day. After uninstalling Ghost 10, I installed Ghost 9, and restored to a previous image I had made with Ghost 10. I got an error message during the restore, but on rebooting, I had the system back. Of course the error message made me decide to reinstall from the ground up, but I was still able to save the important data, make notes on what programs were there etc.
I won’t be installing Ghost 10 again. I cannot afford to use an unreliable program, and if I have had a problem just once, I have to consider it unreliable. I have never had a problem with any previous version of Ghost, and consider the program absolutely indispensable.
But with the automatic backups, Ghost 10 seems to have introduced a level of complexity that spawned the problem I had. I personally would rather exert more control over the program and have rock solid stability, which I didn’t seem to have with version 10.
That said though, Ghost 10 might very well suit someone with different needs than mine.
June 18th, 2006 at 06:20 pm
PALS – URGENT.
Dear all techy gurus,
I have a emergency situation, one of my friend wanted to take ghost of Mysystem [Source](80GB) having C,D, E Partitions to his (80GB)system with C & D partitions. But due utter mistake he copied his Empty system onto my system and I lost lots & lots of data. Can any one in this world tell me..how to restore the Data I had in my system..in C, D, E drives.It is very very URGENT. you can mail me too. at rohinisashi at yahoo . com
Your Immediate will highly appreciated.