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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
can even set a limit to the number of versions kept so that you can control the
use of disk space.
Managing recovery points
Norton Ghost includes several features that help you manage your backup data.
The key is to prevent backup data from taking up too much hard disk space on
your computer while providing adequate backup protection in the event that you
need to recover your computer, files, or folders.
To manage recovery point storage manually
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On the Tools page, click Manage Backup Destination.
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From the Manage Backup Destination window, you can do any of the following
tasks:
See “Cleaning up old recovery points” on page 127.Clean Up
See “Deleting a recovery point set” on page 128.
See “Deleting recovery points within a set” on page 128.
Delete
See “About exploring recovery points ” on page 119.Explore
See “Making copies of recovery points ” on page 129.Copy
See “Moving your backup destination” on page 136.Move
See “Automating management of backup data” on page 135.Settings
Cleaning up old recovery points
Over time, you might end up with recovery points that you no longer need. For
example, you might have several recovery points created months ago that you no
longer need because you have more current ones containing your latest work.
See “Automating management of backup data” on page 135.
The Clean Up feature deletes all but the most current recovery point set, to help
make more space available on your hard disk.
Note: After a recovery point is deleted, you no longer have access to the files or
system recovery from that point in time. You should explore the contents of the
recovery point before you delete it.
127Managing backup destinations
Managing recovery points