It supports any hardware platform, including 64-bit and 32-bit machines. The project is distributed as a single Live CD ISO image that be effortlessly deployed to a USB flash drive or blank CD disc. In order to backup Windows partitions, users are required the use of a bootable Ghost for Linux Live CD, which can be downloaded from the dedicated download section (see above), or by running the G4L application via the Grub4Dos software.

Key features include creation of raw compressed images, creation of NTFSClone compressed Images, UDPcast and FSArchiver programs, support for GPT (GUID Partition Table) partitions, Hardware Detection Tool (HDT), and Memtest86+. Support for CIFS (Common Internet File System), SSHFS (SSH Filesystem) and NFS (Network File System) is also included. The final results can be automatically or optionally compressed and can be stored on either local or external disk drives, as well as transferred to an anonymous FTP server. Ghost for Linux or G4L is an open source minimal distribution of Linux that provides users with a disk cloning and imaging solution specifically designed to support GNU/Linux and UNIX-like operating systems.īeing similar to the commercial Norton Ghost product developed and distributed by Symantec only on the Microsoft Windows platform, Ghost for Linux allows users to create images and backup entire hard disk drives or specific partitions.

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