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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
See “Opening files within a recovery point” on page 121.
See “About exploring recovery points ” on page 119.
To clean up old recovery points
1
On the Tools page, click Manage Backup Destination.
2
Click Clean Up.
The recovery point sets that can be safely removed without eliminating your
latest recovery point are selected automatically. You can check or uncheck
the recovery point sets to specify which ones to remove.
3
Click Delete.
4
Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
5
Click OK.
Deleting a recovery point set
If you know that you no longer want a particular recovery point set, you can delete
it at any time.
Note: Once you delete a recovery point, you no longer have access to file or system
recovery for that point in time.
To delete a recovery point set
1
On the Tools page, click Manage Backup Destination.
2
Select the recovery point set that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
3
Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
4
Click OK.
Deleting recovery points within a set
A recovery point set can contain multiple recovery points created over time that
you can delete to reclaim storage space.
The Delete Points option lets you delete all of the recovery points created between
the first recovery point and last recovery point in the set.
Managing backup destinations
Managing recovery points
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