Advanced and user-friendly software that helps you back up and recover your files while offering support for encryption and scheduled tasks

What's new in Norton Ghost 15.0.0.35659:

Norton Ghost 15.0 also has advanced features not found in Norton Save & Restore 2.0, like the ability to convert a hard drive's contents to a virtual disk format such as a VMware VMDK file or to allow an image file to be mounted as a read-only filesystem within Windows Explorer.

• Norton Ghost now includes support for the following virtual platforms:
• VMware ESX 3.5i and 4.0i
• VMware ESX 3.5 and 4.0

Read the full changelog

Norton Ghost is a tool from Symantec which provides one's files and folders with a high level of protection, through advanced back-up and recovery.

Different installation modes

Installation can be done in standard mode (recommended for all users), or custom one (recommended for advanced users).

The full package contains the backup and recovery service, a recovery point browser, the user interface, CD and DVD support, and LiveUpdate. It is advisable to restart the computer as many times as it requires, to ensure proper functioning of the software.

Generating a new backup task

When creating a new backup task, users are required to choose the source and destination locations, assign a name to the backup, and even protect it with a password and encrypt its contents. Additionally, users can choose to schedule the backup task for a later time or on a frequent basis.

User-friendly interface

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Restore points

Norton Ghost emphasizes the need for the users to create a restore point as the initial backup task, and users are advised to go along with the instructions. This way, if anything should go wrong, it is easy to restore the PC to a previous state when it was working correctly. Alternatively, one can copy the recovery point to a DVD or CD, or even explore files located within the backup.

One of the functions provided by Norton Ghost allows users to optimize the hard-disk that is to be used as the destination location, to make sure there is enough space.

An overall efficient backup and recovery product

To conclude, Norton Ghost is a reliable solution for computer users who spend a great of time working on their computers, and need to constantly back up all their data or only specific file formats (emails, songs, videos or photos).

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LIMITATIONS IN THE UNREGISTERED VERSION

• 30 days trial
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Norton Ghost Agent: 512 MB RAM
• Norton Ghost user interface and Recovery Point Browser: 512 MB RAM
• Symantec Recovery Disk: 1 GB RAM minimum (dedicated)
• LightsOut Restore: 1 GB RAM
• When you install the entire product: Up to 430 MB is required for a full install, depending on the language of the product you select.
• Recovery points: Sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing recovery points.
• The size of recovery points depends on the amount of data you have backed up and the type of recovery point that is stored.
• LightsOut Restore: 2 GB HDD space
• The following virtual platforms are supported: VMware Workstation 4, 5, and 6; VMware ESX 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0; VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0; VMware Server 1; Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and later; Microsoft Hyper-V 1.0 and 2.0;

Norton Ghost was reviewed by Elena Opris

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Norton Ghost is a tool for creating backups of your entire hard-drive that can be recovered any time, for example in the case of moving to a new system or a hardware failure. Backups can include either single files and folders, or entire partitions or drives. Norton Ghost offers incremental and differential backups that can be scheduled to run on a regular basis, e.g. at every system start or on an hourly/daily/weekly basis. Besides hard-drives and disks (CD/DVD/Blue Ray), Norton Ghost also supports Iomega Zip and Jaz, NAS, FTP, network drives and other local and remote storage. Encryption, compression, integration of Google Desktop Search and remote management are additional features that make Norton Ghost a powerful and safe backup software.