Norton Ghost provides advanced backup and recovery for your computer. Protect your documents, financial records, presentations, photos, music, videos, historical documents, or any other kinds of data you keep on your computer by making a backup of your computer's entire hard disk. Or, limit your backup to include only those files and folders that mean the most to you.

You can schedule backups to capture your changes automatically as you work from day to day. Or start a backup manually at any time. You can also easily configure Norton Ghost to run a backup in response to specific events. For example, a backup can be started when a particular application is started, or when a specified amount of new data has been added to the drive.

When you experience a problem with your computer, you can restore a file, folder, or an entire drive, to return your computer to a previous, working state with the operating system, applications, and data files intact. Or when you happen to accidently erase a valuable document, you will be able to restore it with a few simple steps.

Using easy-to-follow wizards, set up fast and reliable backups that run while you continue to work. Or schedule your backups to run after hours when you are no longer using your computer.

Key benefits:
· Creates full system and file backups — Safeguards your system, settings, applications, and files with flexible, comprehensive backup protection.
· Restores from system failuress — Recovers your system and data even when you can’t restart your computer.
· Enables convenient, secure offsite backups — Saves recovery points to an FTP site for easier offsite management and even backs up your data to network-attached storage devices.
· Backs up on schedules and eventss — Lets you decide what is backed up and when so you can customize backups based on how you use your computer.

Here are some key features of "Norton Ghost":

· Cold Imaging lets you back up files without installing Ghost.
· Blu-ray Disc allows you to back up large amounts of data to high-capacity Blu-ray Disc — up to 25 GB per disc (50 GB dual-layer).
· Windows 7 support including support for Bitlocker provides enhanced data protection through drive encryption and integrity checking.
· Symantec ThreatCon integration leverages intelligence from Symantec’s industry-leading security research organization to automatically backup files whenever ThreatCon reaches a specified threat level.
· Full system (disk image) backup lets you easily backup everything on a hard drive or partition.
· File and folder backup lets you back up only the files and folders you choose, rather than backing up and entire disk.
· File backup search finds and backs up only the types of files you choose, such as photos, MP3 files, and documents.
· Incremental backup copies only files that have changed for fewer, faster backups.
· Customizable, event-based backup triggers backups based on key events, such as when you install a new program or when there are sudden increases in data storage.
· Offsite backup copies recovery points to a FTP site for easier offsite backup management.
· NAS backup gives you the option of backing up your files to network-attached storage devices.
· Advanced compression automatically compresses files so you can store more files in less space.
· Advanced encryption helps keep your sensitive documents safe from prying eyes.
· System protection lets you easily restore your system, applications and files even when you can’t restart the operating system.
· Google Desktop integration makes data recovery even faster with searchable backup indexes.
· LightsOut Restore lets you quickly restore your system without needing a bootable CD.
· Remote management lets you remotely control other Norton Ghost installations (12.0 and higher) on your local area network.
· Scheduled P2V allows you to automatically create a virtual disk from your most recent backup.
· Version support lets you restore older disk images made with Ghost 10, 12 and 14.
· Multiple storage options let you back up to almost any media, including Blu-ray Disc, CDR/RW and DVD+-R/RW drives, USB and FireWire (IEEE 1394) devices, network drives, and Iomega Zip and Jaz drives.

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
· Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later
· 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;

Limitations:

· 30 days trial
· Nag screen

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

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

Norton Ghost now includes support for the following platforms:
· Windows 7 (all editions)
· Windows Vista with SP2 (includes Home Basic, Home Premium, Business-Retail, and Ultimate)

· You can now create independent recovery points using the new Back Up My Computer feature in Symantec Recovery Disk. Sometimes known as a cold backup or offline backup, you can create recovery points of a partition without the need to install Norton Ghost or its Agent.

· You can now create schedules to convert recovery points to VMware Virtual Disk and Microsoft Virtual Disks, or directly to a VMware ESX 3.5 server.

· You can now convert recovery points to Hyper-V format and also import recovery points to a Hyper-V server.

· Back up your computer directly to Blu-ray, DVD, or CD. Or, you can copy recovery points to Blu-ray, DVD, or CD.

· If you choose to delay installation of th...