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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
■ Click Browse to locate the folder in which you want to place the virtual
disk image.
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If you select a network location, type your network credentials.
See “About network credentials” on page 66.
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Click Next.
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If you select Microsoft Virtual Disk (.vhd) as your virtual disk format, skip
the next step.
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If you select VMware Virtual Disk (.vmdk), do one of the following options:
■ Check Split into 2GB files if you want to divide the virtual disk file into
smaller files.
For example, you can use this option if you need to copy the virtual disk
to a FAT 32 drive, or if you want to copy the virtual disk files to a DVD but
the size is larger than the DVD allows.
■ Check Store on ESX Server if you want to store the virtual disk file on a
VMware ESX Server, and then provide the following information:
Type the name of the server
or the server's IP address.
Server name or address
Type a valid administrator
name that has sufficient
rights.
Note: The virtual disk files
are transferred to an ESX
Server through a secure
shell (SSH) and secure file
transfer protocol (SFTP).
You might need to change
the settings on the ESX
Server. For more
information, see your ESX
server documentation.
User name
Type a valid password.Password
Type the path to the folder
to which the virtual disk
files should be written.
Upload location
Managing backup destinations
Converting a recovery point to a virtual disk format
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