Rather than full backups every time, the software allows for incremental backups to save storage space and time by only backing up data that has changed since the last backup.
Symantec Ghost, originally developed by Binary Research and later acquired by Symantec (now part of Broadcom), is a disk cloning and backup solution. The variant is a self-contained, bootable ISO image that loads a minimal operating system (typically Windows PE or a custom DOS-like environment) directly from a CD, DVD, or USB drive. This allows users to run Ghost without an installed operating system on the target machine.
For corporate provisioning, Ghost Multicast allows a single server image to be broadcast simultaneously over a local network to dozens of client machines. This reduces network congestion compared to standard point-to-point file copying. 4. SID and GUID Management