The ghost version is a great option to quickly backup and restore your computer system.
You can even schedule incremental backups, allowing you to back up only items that have changed since your last backup. Ghost allows you to back up to any type of media, including CDs and DVDs, external hard drives, or Iomega Zip and Jazz discs. Symantec Norton Ghost Boot CD for Windows by Symantec allows you to create a full system backup that you can use to restore your computer in the event of a hard drive failure or major system crash. On personal computers, ghosts are used to back up everything on the hard disk, often while reinstalling the operating system. The software also converts an image back to its original form when needed.
Ghost copies all content to another server or hard drive for storage, including configuration information and applications. Symantec Ghost is a data copy software that copies the contents of a computer’s hard drive into a compressed file or set of files called an image.