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Multicasting takes cloning one step further.

Either method is acceptable for transferring an image file between two PCs or for cloning. Ghost's interface also lets you use a parallel port to make a peer-to-peer connection to another PC or NetBIOS running on an Ethernet or Token-Ring card. Version 6.0 supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Windows 2000 (Win2K) NTFS (nonencrypted), and Linux ext2. The software's easy-to-use graphical interface lets you copy an entire hard disk or individual partitions to another hard disk or to an image file. The Ghost 6.0 Enterprise Edition executable file, ghost.exe, runs in DOS. To build on the popularity of Norton Ghost, Symantec recently released Norton Ghost 6.0 Enterprise Edition, which includes Norton Ghost (Symantec's basic cloning tool), MultiCast Server, Norton Ghost Console, and several utilities (e.g., Ghost Walker 6.0). Since that time, competition among cloning software vendors has sparked attempts to improve on the basic cloning concept. I also remember my delight when I found a tool that let me create an image of one PC's configuration and copy the image to other machines. I remember the hours I spent configuring new PCs one by one.

IT shops that haven't benefited from disk-cloning software are few and far between. (In Ghost 8.2 or earlier, such image files are automatically split into two or more segments, so that each segment has a maximum size of 2 GB.) Other new features include more comprehensive manufacturing tools, and the ability to create a 'universal boot disk'.Ghost's new enterprise features don't meet expectations It can create an image file that is larger than 2 GB. Ghost Solution Suite 1.1 was released on December 2005. Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 1.1 (Ghost 8.3) Ghost Solution Suite 1.1 is a bundle of an updated version of Ghost, Symantec Client Migration (a user data and settings migration tool) and the former PowerQuest equivalent, Deplo圜enter (using PQI images).

This was further defined in February 2006, with the release of Norton Save And Restore (also known as Norton Backup And Restore), a standalone backup application based on Ghost 10.0.

This helped clarify the difference between the consumer and business editions of the product. Symantec Ghost 8.2 Released November 15, 2004, Symantec renamed the Enterprise version of Ghost to Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 1.0.