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Excellent article - a survey of cloning programs (Read 6778 times)
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Excellent article - a survey of cloning programs
Apr 7
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, 2008 at 10:53am
I have used Ghost for years - all the versions: Hot-imaging, cold imaging. It has been generally OK.
HAving seen a post on the Ghost forum, I switched to ShadowProtect. The ability to restore to different hardware is GIGANTIC. Has anybody ever heard of a laptop being stolen, or a motherboard frying. In most cases, Ghost is useless except for disk issues.
Finally, I just can no longer forgive Symantec for providing H O R R I B L E support. ShadowProtect provides fine support.
Chck out this article:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2259168,00.asp
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Re: Excellent article - a survey of cloning programs
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Apr 7
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Wonder why they didn't use
Norton Ghost 14
? You must be hanging out with Pleo.
Some comments from their Ghost 12 review:
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Bottom line
This is a flexible, powerful drive-imaging and file-backup program with an exceptionally clear interface and lots of scheduling options, but a networking problem with its emergency CD keeps it from receiving an Editors' Choice.
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Pro's
Simple interface with a unique calendar view of past and scheduled backups. Backs up drives and files with ultra-flexible scheduling options, including backups when a specified application launches.
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Cons
Emergency disc couldn't see network on test systems.
Do you use image & restore over a network? I just go to a back-up external USB 2.0 drive. Ghost 12 works fine for that.
Another quote:
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I might recommend buying Norton Ghost 12.0 because it has the best interface of any drive-imaging competitor, and it's the only product of its kind that won't frighten a completely nontechnical user.
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Re: Excellent article - a survey of cloning programs
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Ghost is great but their tech support is downright offensive. And, they can't seem to restore to different hardware. Other than that, I love the Ghost programs. But I see those as serious deficiencies.
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Re: Excellent article - a survey of cloning programs
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Apr 7
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, 2008 at 12:27pm
You/we have two threads going on the same subject, which is always difficult. I responded at the other:
http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1207583695/3#3
Maybe we should lock this one and use the other .. particularly to discuss your claim of restoring to different hardware.
cardinal23 wrote
on Apr 7
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Ghost is great but their tech support is downright offensive.
Symantec provides technical support? That's news.
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