Norton Ghost 9.0

[DarkFury]

Well... I finally got around to installing the new SystemWorks 2005 Premier on my PC and checking out the "new" Norton Ghost 9.0.

At first, I was like... Hmm... well what did they change. And then I stumbled across the "Full and Incremental backup scheduling" section.



I'm like ... DAYUUUM!!! Finally, they have put the incremental scheduler into this program (please pardon if this feature was in the 2003 version... pretty much since Ghost 98, I've been running it from DOS disks and not using the Windows interface.) I know that the "corporate" version of Ghost had incremental backups, but this is the first time I've seen that a home version has had it.

Well...over the past week, I had some PC problems and pretty much lost the last 4 months from my C: drive. (Yeah yeah.. I knew I shoulda backed it up more frequently... call it a "lesson learned") However, if Ghost can now do incremental backups with a full backup once a month, then I'm all for that.

Hopefully there aren't any "underlying issues" with using this scheduler... Has anyone out there had a chance to use these features?

[Bires]

Does it:

1. Backup and restore outside of windows (like old Ghost did with floppies)?
2. Backup to USB harddrives?

[DarkFury]

Does it:

1. Backup and restore outside of windows (like old Ghost did with floppies)?
2. Backup to USB harddrives?

From what I can see... it doesn't restore outside of Windows. (However, I still have a copy of Ghost 2003 that works just fine for doing that should the need arise.)

According to the support information, it can backup to USB devices.

Key Features

• NEW! “Hot imaging” lets you create backup images without restarting Windows®. *

• NEW! Incremental backup updates save time and disk space.*

• NEW! Scheduled backups automatically keep your backup image up to date.*

• Backs up everything on a hard drive or partition.

• Works with a wide range of hard drives and removable media, including CDR/RW and DVD+-R/RW drives, USB and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) devices, and Iomega® Zip® and Jaz® drives.

• Restores data from images created with PowerQuest™ Drive Image™ 7.0 and previous versions of Norton Ghost.*

• Symantec Recovery Disk lets you restore data from a backup image even when the computer can’t start up into Windows.

• LiveUpdate™ keeps Norton Ghost updated automatically over the Internet.

• Norton Ghost 2003 is included to back up and restore data to: Windows 9x, Me, NT; Linux®; and DOS systems.

*This feature is not available with Norton Ghost 2003.