Product History
- GoBack was designed by Wild File, Inc., a company located in Plymouth, Minnesota. The software was shown at COMDEX in November 1998 and released in December 1998. A patent for the technology was issued in January 2000.
- March 2000: Adaptec, Inc., acquires Wild File for approximately $29 million.
- April 2001: Adaptec creates spin-off company, Roxio, Inc., which retains the GoBack product.
- May 2001: Roxio GoBack 3 Deluxe is released, this time also supporting the NTFS filesystem, which by now was being used more widely since the release of Windows XP.
- August 2001: Symantec Corp. announces Norton SystemWorks 2002 which includes GoBack 3 Personal Edition by Roxio.
- April 2003: Roxio sells GoBack to Symantec for $13 million.
- September 2004: Norton GoBack 4.0 is released by Symantec and included in Norton SystemWorks 2005.
- November 2007: Symantec releases a Vista-compatible version of Norton SystemWorks for 2008 (11.0) which no longer contains GoBack, but the Premier Edition of SystemWorks now includes Norton Save & Restore 2.0.
- March 2009: As per Symantec, Norton GoBack has been replaced by Norton Ghost 14 (Norton Ghost however is missing some functions that Norton Goback had).
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