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Table Of Contents
- Norton Ghost™
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Introducing Norton Ghost™
- 2. Installing Norton Ghost
- 3. Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- 4. Getting Started
- Key product components
- How you use Norton Ghost
- Starting Norton Ghost
- Configuring Norton Ghost default options
- Selecting a default backup destination
- Adjusting the effects of a backup on computer performance
- Adjusting default tray icon settings
- Managing file types
- Using aliases for external drives
- Configuring FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy
- Logging Norton Ghost messages
- Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages
- 5. Best practices for backing up your data
- 6. Backing up entire drives
- 7. Backing up files and folders
- 8. Running and managing backup jobs
- Running an existing backup job immediately
- Adjusting the speed of a backup
- Stopping a backup or recovery task
- Verifying that a backup is successful
- Editing backup settings
- Enabling event-triggered backups
- Editing a backup schedule
- Turning off a backup job
- Deleting backup jobs
- Adding users who can back up your computer
- 9. Backing up remote computers from your computer
- 10. Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- Monitoring backup protection from the Home page
- Monitoring backup protection from the Status page
- Configuring Norton Ghost to send SNMP traps
- Customize status reporting
- Viewing drive details
- Improving the protection level of a drive
- Using event log information to troubleshoot problems
- 11. Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- 12. Managing backup destinations
- 13. Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
- 14. Recovering a computer
- About recovering a computer
- Starting a computer by using the recovery environment
- Preparing to recover a computer
- Recovering a computer
- Restoring multiple drives by using a system index file
- Recovering files and folders from the recovery environment
- Using the networking tools in the recovery environment
- Viewing properties of recovery points and drives
- About the Support Utilities
- 15. Copying a drive
- A. Using a search engine to search recovery points
- Index
Use this option to back up only the files and folders that you select.
You can then restore any file or all of them at any time.
This option typically requires less disk space than drive-based backups.
File and folder
backup
About drive-based backups
When you run a drive-based backup, a snapshot is taken of everything that is
stored on your computer's hard disk. Each snapshot is stored on your computer
as a recovery point. A recovery point is a point in time that is used to restore your
computer back to the way it was when the recovery point was created.
The types of recovery points are as follows:
Creates a complete, independent copy of the drives that you select.
This backup type typically requires more storage space.
Independent
recovery point
(.v2i)
Includes a base recovery point. A base recovery point is a complete
copy of your entire drive, and is similar to an independent recovery
point. The recovery point set also includes recovery points that capture
only the changes that are made to your computer since the creation
of the base recovery point.
Recovery point set
(.iv2i)
Although you can recover files and folders from a drive-based backup, you cannot
select a specific set of files or folders to back up. Your entire hard drive is backed
up.
About file and folder backups
If you want to modify or create a select set of personal documents and folders and
you don't want to use hard disk resources to back up your entire computer, you
can define a file and folder backup. Or, you might want to define a file and folder
backup to capture one or more folders that contain the files that you modify on
a regular basis.
File and folder backups let you select individual files or folders to back up. You
can also specify a file type to back up and let Norton Ghost locate and back up all
files of the type you specified. For example, if you have Microsoft Word documents
stored at several locations on your computer, Norton Ghost locates all Word
documents (files ending with .doc) and includes them in your backup. You can
even modify the list of file types to include types unique to the software you are
using.
Norton Ghost also keeps multiple versions of the same files for you, so that you
can restore the version of a file containing the changes you need to restore. You
Managing backup destinations
How backup data works
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