![]() Attached is a screen shot of my existing Ghost backup jobs. I will give this a shot and report back after the holidays. Now that I have so much time in Ghost it make sense to move up to SSR 2013. I have restored an XP image in December, 2012 with some anxiety but in the end no drama. Good news indeed.ĭespite the Ghost learning curve I am also satisfied with the product. However, SSR 2013 appears to be an exact copy of Ghost 15 with a few new bells and whistles. Glad to hear you are a veteran of the Ghost wars. It is a lot faster using a 90 MB/sec USB2 memory stick. But that is due to it being much larger than Ghost 15. The only drawback so far is the slower loading of the SSR Recovery DVD. I wanted to try out SSR 2013 to see how it differs from Ghost 15. You really will not gain much if you stay with Win-7 64 bit. Since Ghost 15 came out it has been very stable and easy to install and configure once you get up the very steep learning curve. ![]() I go back to 1995 with the original Ghost utility and after Norton bought the product, through the various Norton Ghost iterations. Ghost 15 only has a 32-bit recovery disk, but is is very reliable once you get everything working. However, SSR 2013 appears to be an exact copy of Ghost 15 with a few new bells and whistles added as well as the ability to restore an image with a 64-bit Recovery Disk. That says that my problem was fixed by a Bios change that switched the PCI MMIO size to small. There is an update that will appear after it is blessed by the moderators. At the very least, we would expect to see an officially documented Symantec technical statement about backward compatibility, transition, conversion tools, etc. Is our assumption a reasonable one? If not, where is the documentation about transition and conversion from Ghost to SSR? Obviously we are not going to risk our reputation or damage to clients based on casual and possibly ambiguous comments in a forum. ![]() Our assumption, therefore, is that SSR is not 100% backward compatible and therefore we should be advising clients NOT to uninstall Norton Ghost, NOT to install the new SSR 2013, BUT to switch to Acronis True Image instead. After all, if there was a simple conversion path, I am sure your marketing people would have made a clear, bold statement about this in trying to retain Norton Ghost users. The absence, in your message to Norton Ghost users, of any reference to backward compatibility suggests that the two products are completely different. ![]() The 309 page SSR 2013 User's Guide does not have the word "ghost" in the text. It clearly states that Ghost must first be uninstalled, but nowhere is there any up front statement of "backward compatibility". We have recently received notification that Norton Ghost has been discontinued and consequently a free 60-day trial of SSR 2013 is being offered. ![]()
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