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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
You can specify a limit to the number of versions of each file or folder stored in
file and folder backup data.
See “Limiting the number of file versions to keep” on page 134.
To find versions of a file or folder
1
Open Windows Explorer.
2
Navigate to a file that you know is included in a file and folder backup.
3
Right-click the file, and then click Show Versions.
Automating management of backup data
Norton Ghost can monitor your backup storage space and notify you when it is
getting full. It can also automatically delete old recovery points and older versions
of files from file and folder backups that exceed the threshold. If you do not specify
a threshold, Norton Ghost notifies you when the disk reaches 90percent of its
total capacity.
To automate management of backup data
1
On the Tools page, click Manage Backup Destination.
2
Check Limit fileversionsforfileand folderbackups, and then type a number
between 1 and 99.
3
Check Monitor disk space usagefor backupstorage, and then drag the slider
to limit the total amount of disk space that can be used for your recovery
points and your file and folder backup data.
4
Do one of the following:
■ Check Warn me when backup storage exceedsthreshold if you only want
to be notified when the storage size is exceeded, but you do not want any
action to be taken.
■ Check Automatically optimize storage if you want Norton Ghost to
manage the backup data automatically, without prompting you.
If you select this option, Norton Ghost automatically deletes the old
recovery points and limits file versions to remain within the threshold
that you set.
5
Check Delay changes until next backup if you do not want your changes
applied until the next backup runs.
6
Click OK.
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Automating management of backup data










