Norton™ Save & Restore Retail Price US$ 49.99 C$ 48.86

Safeguards photos and important files. Schedules automatic backups. Restores from system failures. Automatically monitors and optimizes disk space. Encrypts backups to help keep them secure.

Norton Save & Restore is the user-friendly version of Ghost. It loses the ability to install the same disk image on a dozen computers, but more than gains in the fact it also functions like a standard backup. If your hard drive goes out, it can repair it back to how it was before, but, more importantly, you can individually backup files.

In addition, there are quite a few wizards that have been added to make the entire process seamless. Maybe you want to back up your music only once a month, because it's 5 gigs and if it disappeared, you could rerip it. But you want to back up all other documents to CD every evening, except for .doc files, which you also want to back up every hour to another area of your hard drive. It's easy to set up.

Yes, Norton Save & Restore can back up to a hard drive as easily as a CD or USB drive. Obviously that's not for recovering in case of disk failures, as your backups would also be unread. It's so you can recover when that important file you've been working on that got corrupted, or you delete something, realize you need it later, and it's not in your recycle bin. Fire up Save & Restore and tell it to give you that file back.

And, if the worse happens, and the hard drive does fail, you can boot off the backup CD/DVDs! On system failure, that brings you immediately back to where you were. No more installing Windows, than Office, then Photoshop, then etc etc...and then trying to track down all the free software you installed off the internet. It automatically watchs for key events like installing programs.

In other words, you can make your own bootable 'system restore' CD/DVDs, like those that come with some computers. And those CDs contain all your data and carefully installed applications, and are as up-to-date as you want them to be.

Norton Save & and Restore has all the power of Norton Ghost that individuals consumers need, with the complicated business features like multiple-drive imagining removed, and the entire interface simplied so you don't have to be an IT guy to run it. It give you exactly the same security that Norton Ghost, the industry standard in disaster recover, in knowing your data is secure when disaster hits, and adds to it the power and simplicity that end users, instead of large businesses, need.

So get Norton Save & Restore now.

Or, if you are managing large groups of computers that you need to keep in a consistent state, check out Norton Ghost and see if it is more to your needs. There are volume discounts.