Norton ghost 8 corporate edition

The Ghost boot disk contains some generic drivers for these hardware connections. Network administrators can also use Norton Ghost to deploy multiple machines on a network but "Professional version" is better equipped for that. If you get machines of the same configuration, then you can configure one, create a ghost image, and copy it across the remaining machines. Ghost also has many command-line parameters, such as those for checking image file integrity, etc.

If your operating system is not responding, this tool lets you boot your PC, restore a backup image and perform system fixes and virus scans. Norton Ghost 9. That provides the possibility of direct burning of image on DVD operating that was possible in Ghost but was too slow to be useful.

If you previously created a disk image or partition image file, you can use that file to restore the disk or partition. If the harddrive is physically damaged, you can restore the disk or partition from the image to a different hard disk.

What is really impressive is that Ghost image is not a monolithic archive. Norton Ghost 9 can mount images as a drive so that the backup copy looks just like the original drive. This even more slicker solution that contained a special utility that is capable of to extract files from the image Ghost explorer in Ghost Both solutions are pretty amazing and provide flexibility not available in Unix world.

For typical windows XP C drive say 10G of data Ghost takes approximately 25 min and produces image approximately 7G in size. For comparison to create a RAR archive for the 4G partition takes over an hour on the same computer. Ghost 8. New features also make it easier to migrate user settings such as Windows "My Documents" folders, desktop shortcuts and configurations between computers, Symantec said.

To make multiple target cloning more efficient, multicasting feature from original Ghost was reintroduced for this version. Bandwidth throttling features enable companies to use the multicast feature without taking up too much of the network's available resources, the company said.

Ghost customers can still "unicast," copying a desktop image to a single machine, or deploy a single image to all machines on a network subnet, Symantec said. Symantec also included features to limit the impact of system cloning and restoration on corporate networks. Unlike earlier versions of Ghost, Version 8.

Those enable administrators to store local copies of user profiles, software fixes or even entire "images" of the computer operating environment, Symantec said. Unlike other disk contents, the staging area is not overwritten when Ghost restores files to the machine and the files in it can be used to quickly install key software components.

Earlier versions of Ghost required all the information captured during the cloning process or used in a restoration to be sent back and forth over the corporate network, Symantec said. Symantec also introduced improved asset tracking features. IT administrators can now track what hardware and software is running on remote machines from the Ghost 8. A "ghost boot" feature simplifies deployment of the Ghost product by allowing administrators to browse for network machines and remotely install the Ghost client.

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We do not warrant the correctness of the information provided or its fitness for any purpose. The legal substance of the license agreement does not depend on HOW you deploy with Ghost whether manually or through the console. What Lohizune is referring to is not the legal, contractual license itself, but merely a process the Ghost console uses to give an approximate guide to your current license usage.

That mechanism is NOT the same thing as the legal contract and it is NOT correct to infer that if the console permits an operation then it is necessarily valid under the terms of the EULA which has to include all use of Ghost, including manual use with boot disks. The most substantial part of the EULA wording change was to make explicit what was previously left implicit in earlier EULAs; how to effect a transfer of license from a machine to another.

Previously this was left unstated and implicit; in earlier versions of Ghost Enterprise we supplied a specific License Audit Utility for customers who wished to scan their machines to see what their true usage was, to take full account of non-console usage of Ghost which is higher and also to take account of machines that had been decommissioned and thus whose licenses were thus implicitly able to be reassigned.

The EULA terms in the newer process clarified this with the aim of making the simple bottom line clearer: however many machines you have in your organization that you have deployed with Ghost, whether via the console or manually, you should be able to demonstrate if audited that you have a sufficient number of client licenses for ALL of them. Posted May 20, AM. It is a little worrying that two employees of the same company appear to have such disparate understanding of the Ghost product licensing - if employees cannot interpret the license consistently then what chance do users have.

Perhaps now would be a good time for the GSS product manager to give some lessons on the licensing model to the Symantec employees who are supporting the product. Posted May 20, PM.

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By friendofatlas in Video August 26, AVS Video Editor 6. The corporate edition supports, and transfers via. This version now includes support for USB-connected devices—a welcome addition. Another long awaited improvement is the ability to write to NTFS partitions. The Boot Wizard provides the option of creating boot disks for each particular scenario of using Ghost Figure B.

Ghost32 is a bit Windows version of ghost that is also installed as part of the tools package. The Windows version has a major limitation when compared to its DOS counterpart: Ghost32 cannot image any partition that has open files; therefore you cannot use it to image the current system partition.

In addition to the two versions of the Ghost executable, several other utilities are installed. One tool is Gdisk and Gdisk Gdisk is a direct replacement for the DOS partitioning utility fdisk.

Gdisk is a command line utility and has no user interface like its DOS counterpart. However, what it lacks in a user interface it makes up for in power. Gdisk can do everything that fdisk can and adds more features such as the ability to create hidden partitions and also includes a disk "wiping" feature that meets U. S Department of Defense specifications see documentation for details. Ghstwalk is another command-line utility that allows a unique security identifier SID to be assigned to a system after cloning.

When a system is cloned with Ghost, the SID is cloned as well. Ghstwalk resolves the issue of having multiple systems with the same SID which can lead to serious problems. The software is then installed and another snapshot is taken.