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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
■ VMware ESX Server 2.5 and 3.0
■ VMware Infrastructure 3
■ Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
To convert a recovery point to virtual disk format
1
On the Tools page, click Convert to Virtual Disk, and then click Next.
2
Select the recovery point that you want to convert, and then click Next.
3
If you don't see the recovery point that you want to use, do one of the
following:
■ Click View all recovery points, and then select a recovery point.
■ Click View by, and then select one of the following alternatives:
Lets you browse to another location, for example, an external
(USB) drive or removable media to select a recovery point
(.v2i) file.
Select this option, and then do the following:
■ Click Browse, locate and select a recovery point (.v2i file),
and then click Open.
■ If you select a network location, type your network
credentials.
See “About network credentials” on page 66.
■ Click Next.
Filename
Displays a list of all of the drives on your computer and shows
any associated recovery points. You can also select a system
index file (.sv2i).
Select this option, and then do the following:
■ Click Browse, locate and select a recovery point (.sv2i),
and then click Open.
■ If you select a network location, type your network
credentials.
See “About network credentials” on page 66.
■ Click Next.
System
4
Click Virtual disk format, and then select a format.
5
Do one of the following:
■ In the folder in which you want to place the virtual disk image, type the
path.
131Managing backup destinations
Converting a recovery point to a virtual disk format










