Ghost could clone a disk or partition to another disk or partition or to an image file. Version 3.1, released in 1997 supports cloning individual partitions. They could run on an IBM XT and without extended memory. These versions supported only the cloning of entire disks. Ghost 1.0 and 1.1 were released in 1996, followed by 2.0 (2.07) in the same year. 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 The backup and recovery functionality has been replaced by Symantec System Recovery (SSR), although the Ghost imaging technology is still actively developed and is available as part of Symantec Ghost Solution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. 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.
