Symantec Ghost is a comprehensive enterprise tool for OS deployment, software distribution, and client migration. The solution helps to reduce IT costs by streamlining networked server, desktop, and notebook management. Now administrators can deploy or restore an OS image or application onto a PC in minutes, and easily migrate user settings and profiles to customize PCs. Symantec Ghost enables reliable backups of PC drives, including applications and critical data for recovery to the base image. Administrators can choose to deploy entire operating systems, application packages, user personalities, security hot fixes, or incremental backups. A unique file preservation capability preserves the Client Staging Areas contents during a restore, thereby maintaining a local backup and recovery of the base image. With the Ghost Client installed, theres no need to visit the target PC in order to conduct routine deployment or maintenance. Improved centralized and remote management, a Client Staging Area, local cloning s