Norton GHOST

[xtreme_boi]

Just need people's opinion's, if anyone uses this program?

Any good points, or bad points even?

POST HERE!

 

[Clart]

its crap. slows your PC down so much. why do u want it? manual backups are far easier

 

[xtreme_boi]

Well manual backups just take time.

I had to restore my PC last week, cuz I thought my PC was messed up. That alone took me hours, and I still forgot to back a few things up (which I have now lost). So just looking for a program [for future ref] where I can back EVERYTHING up on my HDD to my 250GB external HDD.

Just handy to have/know, I guess!

 

[Clart]

it basically takes an image of your hard drive and writes it to a file, usually on another disk. Everytime a file is changed on c: it will do an incremental backup to d: which means you WILL notice the PC running slower. Depends whether u can live with that for peace of mind that u are backing everything up.

Personally all I do is make DVD's of my photos/vids/documents every few months.

 

[xtreme_boi]

Hmmm but I am guessing you don't to have have Norton GHOST running on your system, correct? I would only really use it if & when I plan to reinstall the O/S

 

[Clart]

i suppose - i think its more like a proactive back up though. ie if your c: drive blows up before u've installed if your screwed.

 

[xtreme_boi]

Anyway, thanks for the info Clart!

 

[Mike_182]

Personally I think it's a pretty good system. Ok, as a backup utility it's s**t but for what it's designed for - small to medium scale deployment - then it's fantastic. I've got a boot CD which loads all the drivers for my DVD-RW drive and all I do is set my computer up at home with the bare minimum (I.E. All drivers, basic software such as ATI MMC if you use it, Office and all the Windows Updates at the time) and then get it to write a dual-layer DVD with that image on - rarely gets bigger than the 9Gb size limit and then when it cacks up, I've got a restored machine in about an hour and I've got all my incremental backups of data done seperately.

Much more effective use of it than as a backup.

 

[Andi-B]

I have it, swear by it, I have an image on DVD of my windows OS plus all my installed drivers/codecs/system settings etc. Takes about 25 minutes to put the base image of windows back with all my hardware drivers now and saves me about 2/3 hours worth of work.

Plus it's a clean image 'straight out of the box' install so none of the downloaded hidden crap too in the background.
Mine wasn't a pre-built pc, all home built so I've no hidden 5Gb restore drives either

 

[Jonaldinho]

I swear by it at work when doing computer labs at my College. We make a PC with every appropriate piece of software on it and burn through ghost onto CDs.

We use disks as you can work your way round a room quite fast.

Computer 1 - Disk 1
Computer 1 - Disk 2
Computer 2 - Disk 1
Computer 1 - Disk 3
Computer 2 - Disk 2

And so on.......