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Whether you're running it on your home desktop, laptop or business server - you can manually do live disk or file and folder backups but also scheduled backups: local, to FTP site or to network drives and removable external USB devices or FireWire. Norton Ghost 15 with it's automatic backup management system and intuitive interface will make the job easy for you even if you're a rookie or an advanced user.

Mostly, the reason we have lost important data is not because of hardware or software failure, but because we have never found time for backing up the data. We all know that it easier to prevent instead of trying to restore your lost data or information when it's too late.

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