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| Brand | Symantec |
| Type | CD-ROM |
| Release Date | 2009-11-16 |
| List Price | $69.99 |
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Categories |
| All Symantec Computer Security Backup Discover Holiday - Software List Price Warning Eligible CD DVD Microsoft Windows |
Features |
- Multiple Storage options Backs up to nearly any media, counting CDR/RW and DVD+-R/RW drives, USB and FireWire (IEEE 1394) devices, Network drives, and Iomega ZIP and JAZ drives
- Offsite backup - Backs up your files to network-attached storage devices
- Full system backup (disk picture) Backs up everything on a Hard Drive or partition
- Incremental and differential backup Backs up only files this have changed
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Customer Reviews |
 1,000 file max 2010-03-10 |
| By Jared Hanna |
First off stay away from this product at all cost.
I bought this product to back up specific folders, these folders have multiple sub folders and 1,000s of files within. I backed up specific folders because they were what was important, the backup ran weekly everything was fine. Eventually the drive went and I wanted to retrieve those folders from the back up. What Norton doesn't tell you is that if there is more then 1,000 files in these folders you cannot retrieve them all, they are backed up you just can't get them. The other major problem even assuming you don't have 1,000 files in a folder all sub folders will be lost when you restore, basically all the files will just be dumped into one folder for you to sort out. The product was a waste of time and money and resulted in massive data loss for me. Customer service was very prompt in telling me that I could not retrieve the files, if that is any consolation. Do Not Buy! |
 Not an improvement over 14 2010-03-09 |
| By J. Martinez (California USA) |
I bought the product because Norton Ghost 14 has issues with Windows 7. Mostly this product is the same as version 14 with two exceptions:
1. This product allows you to do cold backups on your system by booting to your Recovery CD. This is a great feature but the only problem is that you have to enter your serial number each time. This is a pain in the butt.
2. I have found that Symantec crippled the file browser functions on the Recovery CD. You can browse your files alright but the file functions have been disabled. This is a big thing because I used to be able to copy the most recent files from my computer to an external drive before I reimaged the drive even if I couldn't boot to the OS. Now I have keep the Norton Ghost 14 recovery CD for this purpose or boot to Linux on a USB stick just to accomplish this on a computer with a broken OS.
I liked version 14 and am disapointed in version 15 mainly because of change 2 listed above. I can work around the shortcomings but feel I shouldn't have to. Still all and all it is a very good product for most peoples backup solutions.
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 G12 to G15 update, no more destination management 2010-03-05 |
| By Andrew Rossmann (Schaumburg, IL United States) |
I updated my Ghost 12 to Ghost 15. Ever since, I can no longer manage the destination drive. I cannot consolidate incremental backup, or cleanly delete old backups. Symantec has been no help. I even had one backup crash with some weird error.
Also, imaging backups like Ghost are not very friendly with active defragmenters like Diskeeper 2010's I-FAAST mode, which constantly shuffles things around to optimize load times. The result is huge incrementals.
G12 worked fine, except for the large incremental issue after updating Diskeeper. I updated Ghost as I was considering updating to Win7 (I currently have Vista 32-bit), and G12 is not compatible with it.
I'll probably change to an old-fashioned file-based backup program. There are several free ones out there...
Update: I was able to get the destination management working by deleting all the backups and their directory, then forcing the backups to a different directory. Symantec's forums were a bit slow on ideas. |
 nORTON gHOST 2010-03-05 |
| By Robert Doty |
| Ghost was easy to set up and use. It easily backed up my disk and stored in on both dvds and then on a network attached storage. |
| Beware of norton ghost claims on hard drive copy. 2010-02-28 |
| By DAVID H. Jr |
I used a prior version of ghost to clone a hard drive in the past and it worked. I bought the 14.0 version and the support site provides a guide (Document # 2008011103205462) for performing the disk to disk transfer. I wanted to clone my old 200gb IDE drive to a western digital 1 tb SATA drive. Ghost did not function as advertised. Ghost could not find the destination drive. Long story short, I downloaded Western Digital's version of "TRUE IMAGE" from WD website and it did a PERFECT job! Save your money by buying a WD drive and download the cloning software for free.
Again the support site provides document ID# 20091020121013EN as a guide for Norton Ghost 15.0 hard drive copy.
Based upon experience with version 14, I would not place too much faith on their latest claim. |