Genuine Ghost in Ghost Solution Suite will do this too (albeit with some limitations in respect of complex LVM situations), and GSS2.5 includes native Linux-runnable versions of Ghost as well.

Every version of Ghost beginning with 7.5 understands ext2 and ext3 filesystems natively (although every version accepts a wider range of variants; for instance, newer versions accept different inode sizes, handle LVM to various degrees and so forth). The biggest practical barrier to restoration with any particular version is, however, usually due the choice of boot manager, not the filesystem. When restoring, Ghost has always had to try and patch up the various Linux boot managers and since they tend to change their data formats to be incompatible regularly, this is hard to guarantee.

TheShadow wrote on Dec 10^th, 2008 at 7:09am:

No, you aren't correct. That's only true when using -ir, or when Ghost encounters a partition type which indicates the filesystem is of a type that the version in question doesn't understand (e.g., HPFS or HFS+ which aren't understood by any current version), or of the PowerQuest type of products which are essentially sector cloners (although they do still contain code that does understand the filesystems in some amount of detail in order to adjusts them after the restore to correct for partition size and geometry changes, just as any practical cloning product has to understand them to some extent).

If it understands the filesystem, the image format and cloning process is much more sophisticated. For FAT-type partitions (and ext-type partitions from 7.5 onwards), the image format contains all the original filesystem metadata but the usual restore process tends to be more like building a new filesystem from scratch and restoring the files into it, because that produces the best result. Ghost has basically always preferred archive-style operation; that's why since back to around version 3, restored FAT partitions are fully defragmented.

For NTFS, it's slightly different to that due to the complex structure of NTFS, although it's become more and more like that over time since it's now necessary to do such a large amount of post-restore adjustment (and of course since Ghost versions from 8ish onwards have supported non-destructive restores that can preserve parts of the existing filesystem and patch them back into the restore filesystem afterwards).

Quote:

To find the version number of my Ghost.exe file, I boot up to a DOS prompt with my ghost boot disk and then run;

  (then press ENTER)

and the Ghost copyright message, with the Ghost version, will be printed on the screen.

I hope this answers that one question.

Shadow