Original author(s) | Murray Haszard | ||||
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Developer(s) | Symantec | ||||
Initial release | 1995 | ||||
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Type | Disk cloning | ||||
License | Trialware | ||||
Website | ghost.com |
Feature | Description |
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DeployAnywhere | Allows drivers to be injected during image deployment to lessen the need for hardware dependent images. |
Hot imaging | Allows live machines to be used as the source to keep images from becoming stale and out of date. |
Image formats | Ghost 11.5 supports saving to and restoring from native Ghost image format (.gho and .ghs) and VMDK format (.vmdk). It also supports restoring from DriveImage format (.v2i, .iv2i,) PowerQuest image format (.pqi) and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) format. |
PreOS boot disk |
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Feature | Description |
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Improved support for virtual formats | [further explanation needed] |
Improved platform support | Includes support for Windows 7, Windows Vista with SP2 and BitLocker-encrypted volumes |
Create recovery points from within Symantec Recovery Disk | Creates independent recovery points (known as a cold backup or offline backup) without the need to install Norton Ghost or its agent |
Convert recovery points to virtual disks using a schedule | Scheduled-based automatic conversion of recovery points to VMDK or VHD files, or to a VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V server |
Support for Microsoft Hyper-V and Blu-ray Disc | Recovery points may now be created or restored from either |