Ghost Use method, Ghost use diagram

　　1. Ghost Introduction

Ghost is a tool for system, data backup and recovery from Symantec Company. The latest version is Ghost10. But since Ghost9, it can only run under Windows, providing data timing backups, automatic recovery, and recovery of system backups.

This article will cover the Ghost 8.x series (up to 8.3), which runs under DOS, provides full backup and recovery of the system, and supports disk file system formats including FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, ext3, Linux swap, etc. You can also make a full backup of sector-sector to unsupported partitions.

The Ghost 8.x series is divided into two versions, Ghost (run under Dos) and Ghost32 (run under Windows), which have a unified interface to achieve the same functionality, but The ghost under Windows system cannot restore the partition on which the Windows operating system resides, so you need to use the DOS version in this case.

2. Ghost Startup

When you start Ghost8.0, a picture appears in figure one

Figure A Ghost8.0 Start screen

After clicking OK, you can see the main menu of Ghost, as shown in Figure two.

Figure II Ghost Menu

In the main menu, there are the following:

Local: operation on the hard disk on the local computer.

Peer to Peer: Operates on a hard disk on a network computer through a point-to-point mode.

Ghostcast: The hard drive on a network computer is operated on a unicast/multicast or broadcast basis.

Option: Use the Ghsot when using some of the options, generally use the default settings.

Help: A succinct aid.

Quit: Exit Ghost.

Note: The Peer to Peer and ghostcast options will not be available when the network protocol driver is not installed on the computer (typically not installed in Dos).

3. Use Ghost to operate a partition

After you start Ghost, select Local->partion to operate on the partition.

To partion: Copies the contents of one partition to another partition.

To Image: Copies the contents of one or more partitions into a mirrored file. This operation is selected for general backup systems.

From image: Restores the mirrored file to the partition. When the system is backed up, you can select this operation to restore the system.