Product Description
The Norton Ghost 15.0 can safeguards your system, settings, applications, and files with flexible, comprehensive backup protection. Save recovery points to an FTP site for easier offsite management and even backs up your data to network-attached storage devices. It also lets you decide what is backed up and when so you can customise backups based on how you use your computer.
Product Features
- Leverages intelligence from Symantec's industry-leading security research organization by triggering incremental backups whenever ThreatCon reaches a specified threat level; Great for computers without antivirus protection;Backs up your files to network-attached storage devices.
starts slowly but fine overall
ReplyDeleteIt has been a while since I have used Norton Ghost, so I was interested to see how it has been developed over the last few years. My experience of it has always been positive - once the initial back up has been done. This first step can be measured in days rather than hours if you have a substantial hard drive. I guess that is my main disappointment with this software. Given the increasing size of the drives we now work with (who would have guessed that we would have 1.5 tb external HDD in common domestic use a few years ago) I really think that Norton could do something to speed up the initial backup - but maybe usb2 is the limiting factor?
Having done the initial ghost copy the incremental backups are relatively swift, so I have no great complaints. The user interface has been improved and I would think that it is relatively intuitive if you have some idea what you are doing. Certainly if you are a previous user of Ghost you will feel right at home. I have not actually tried wiping my drive and doing a reinstall - so I take it on trust that it will perform if it needs to.
All in all a creditable package - but set aside some time to do the initial work. Oh and if you already have an older version of Ghost I can't really see the point of an upgrade.