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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
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Select which recovery point to copy, and then click OK.
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On the Welcome page of the Copy Recovery Point Wizard, click Next.
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Select the recovery point that you want to copy.
Recovery point sets appear as single recovery points. Check View allrecovery
points to display all incremental recovery points that are included within
the recovery point sets.
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Click Next.
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Do one of the following:
■ In the Folder box, type the path to which you want to copy the recovery
point.
■ Click Browse to locate the folder to which you want to copy the recovery
point, and then click OK.
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Select a level of compression for the copies of the recovery points.
See “About setting a compression level for drive-based backups” on page 72.
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If you want to verify whether a recovery point is valid once the copy is
complete, check Verify recovery point after creation.
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Click Advanced, and then select from the following options:
■ Divide into smaller files to simplify archiving
■ Use password
See “Setting advanced options for drive-based backups” on page 68.
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Click OK.
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Click Next, review the options that you selected, and then click Finish.
Once the recovery points are safely copied, you can delete them from your
computer.
See “Deleting a recovery point set” on page 128.
Converting a recovery point to a virtual disk format
You can use Norton Ghost to convert recovery points of a physical computer to a
VMWare Virtual Disk (.vmdk) or a Microsoft Virtual Disk (.vhd).
Virtual disks created from recovery points are supported by the following
platforms:
■ VMware GSX Server 3.1 and 3.2
■ VMware Server 1.0
Managing backup destinations
Converting a recovery point to a virtual disk format
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