

Technologies developed by 20/20 Software were integrated into Ghost after their acquisition by Symantec in April 2000. After the Symantec acquisition, a few functions (such as translation into other languages) were moved elsewhere, but the main development remained in Auckland until October 2009 at which time much was moved to India. The backup and recovery functionality has been replaced by Symantec System Recovery (SSR), although the Ghost imaging technology is still actively developed and is available as part of Symantec Ghost Solution Suite.īinary Research developed Ghost in Auckland, New Zealand. The technology was acquired in 1998 by Symantec. Retrieved 23 June 2014.Ghost (an acronym for general hardware-oriented system transfer ) is a disk cloning and backup tool originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research. ^ 'Symantec System Recovery Server Edition'.^ 'Symantec™ Ghost Solution Suite 3.2 RU3 Release Notes'.^ 'IT Management Suite 7.6 and Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 Launch Webcast - March 3'.^ 'Brief overview of Symantec Ghost and Norton Ghost versions'.


Until 2007, Ghost Explorer could not edit NTFS images. Explorer was subsequently enhanced to support adding and deleting files in an image with FAT, and later with ext2, ext3 and NTFSfile systems. This version also introduced Ghost Explorer, a Windows program which supports browsing the contents of an image file and extract individual files from it. Multicasting supports sending a single backup image simultaneously to other machines without putting greater stress on the network than by sending an image to a single machine. Version 4.0 of Ghost added multicast technology, following the lead of a competitor, ImageCast.
