Its capture and deployment environment requires booting to a Windows PE environment. GHOST is marketed as an OS deployment solution.
The backup and recovery functionality was replaced by Symantec System Recovery (SSR).īroadcom acquired Symantec's Enterprise Security business in 2019. The technology was acquired in 1998 by Symantec. GHOST (an acronym for general hardware-oriented system transfer ), now Symantec™ GHOST Solution Suite (GSS) for enterprise, is a disk cloning and backup tool originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research.
