Agreed it will also do backups and restores across a network.
Martin Ozolins
"Fortune favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur
From: jmriusers@... [mailto:jmriusers@...]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 12:45
To: jmriusers@...
Subject: RE: [jmriusers] Backups - A Cautionary Tale - When overkill just
isn't enough, use Ghost.
Greg / Bill and members interested in backups
Norton's Ghost was a great product and I still use it for my backups.
Unfortunately, Norton has now discontinued Norton's Ghost. Company greed
found out that it was a product they could not sell a "renewable
subscription for an annual fee" like their anti-virus software, so they
discontinued it. There are still copies available on ebay and version works
for W 7 and earlier versions of Windows.Depending on the type of hard drive
you use, Western Digital makes their own imaging product that works great
and it is FREE. Nero is another reliable company that makes a great suite of
software products and one of the programs is also an imaging product.
The advantage with Ghost is that you could create a bootable disc in the
event your hard drive went toast. If you backed up your system to an
external drive,( I do not know of any other way) you could install the new
drive and boot with the disc and do a complete restore from your last backup
file. It WAS a great product. Today's method of backing up to a "cloud" is
as risky as posting your social security number on a chat site. If it is not
under your control, someone will find a way to hack into it just like Target
this past Christmas.
Good luck with the backup,
Nick Kulp
