Norton Ghost History May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle;-) Bigger doesn't imply better. Bigger often is a sign of obesity, of lost control, of overcomplexity, of cancerous cells Norton Ghost History Humor Etc Norton Ghost: History of development method Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov Version 0.80 Copyright 1998-2012, Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov. This is a copyrighted unpublished work. All rights reserved.

Contents • • • • • • • Norton Ghost 12-13 • Norton Ghost 14-15 • • • The history of Ghost is the history of a useful innovation if not destroyed, was severely damaged by Symantec. Currently Acronis True Image replaced Ghost on the marketplace. Ghost is an innovative attempt to make unix dd style backup process more flexible from a little know New Zealand firm.

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Which was bought by Symantec. The latter in its classic style destroyed it with inept marketing and unability to move from DOS as the base of the program. So it acquired Power Quest which has a similar program called Drive Image, the main competitor of the original Ghost with some innovative features. And destroyed it too. Later in 2005 Symantec decided to use Ghost brand for the backup program from Veritas which was acquired (and destroyed) at this time. After realizing that this was huge blunder Symantec revived the original style partition backup program in Ghost 14 and later. Flashing truck drivers photos. See for details.

Corporate edition has somewhat different path and has some additional features. Symantec has a long & sordid history of acquiring products or complete companies and then destroying their products. If we talk about the basic idea behind Ghost, then we should consider it to be a derivative of Unix. In principle Ghost is just a hybrid of sector-by-sector disk copying utility and regular 'per file' backup based on understanding of the filesystem of the partition which it working with.

Like in dd the disk/partition contents are copied either directly to another disk or partition, or ( more typically ) they are saved as a file that can later be restored to a disk or partition. But here similarities end. Ghost is hybrid idea: it has two layers -- partition layer on which it deals with partition resizing, etc and filesystem layer on which it deals with file present on the filesystem. As it needs to understand the filesystem structure Ghost perform much more complex operations the DD (for example the restore on a partition of smaller size). But there is no free lunch and versatility and simplicity of dd are gone. Each new version of filesystem requires new version of ghost. Also ghost can't backup deleted files like DD can: it backs up only disk blocks that contain 'valid' files as reflected in filesystem directories.

That means that generally it is less tolerant for the errors. And its ability to backup damaged filesystems is really inferior in comparison with DD. Also typically it does not have good recovery methods for damaged archive. Acronis true image is very bad in the respect and you really find yourself in a very difficult position due to a minor error in archive. At the same time there are some improvement over DD capabilities. Among them: • It typically produces compressed images.

See also • It can restore disk/partition backup to a disk/partition of different size expanding or compacting the filesystem on the fly. • It also has the ability to restore individual files and folders (this capability was first unleashed in Ghost 2001). After you created your image, you can then restore not only the whole image, but each individual file or folder on it. Recently Linux loopback filesystem provided similar capabilities to DD images. Ghost can even update images with new files although I do not think that this is such a great idea. Norton Ghost is not a single product developed from one version to another. After initial acquisition Symantec played its typical game with it -- the original product was discarded, competitor was bought but also destroyed, and so on and so forth.

In its current incarnation this is a different product which is not a derivative of the original Ghost. It have little in common other then name and broad function. • Old versions of Symantec Ghost (up to 2003) -- classic Ghost -- is a DOS-based utility.

They all based on original design by Binary Research that Symantec acquired. From the very beginning Ghost has pretty amazing capabilities of working with disk images, essentially creating a class of its own. Vampire knight guilty yuuki. Binary Research created significant momentum and has good penetration in the Windows marketplace when Symantec acquired the product. From the very beginning Ghost was able to work with NTFS images. Later it acquired the possibility to extract individual files via special utility, Ghost Explorer.