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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
Norton Ghost includes a search tool to help you locate the files that you want to
recover.
To recover files and folders by using file and folder backup data
1
On the Home or Tasks page, click Recover My Files.
2
In the left pane of the Recover My Files window, select File and Folder as the
search method.
3
Do one of the following:
■ In the Find files to recover search box, type the whole name or partial
name of a file or folder that you want to restore, and then click Search.
For example, type recipe to return any file or folder that includes the word
recipe in its name, for example My Recipes.doc, Recipes.xls, Recipes for
Success.mp3, and so forth.
■ Click Advanced Search, type your search criteria, and then click Search.
To return to the standard search text box, click Basic search.
4
In the search results list box, select the files that you want to restore by using
one of the following methods:
Click the file once.To select a single file
Press Ctrl+A.To select all files
Click the top file, press and hold Shift, and
then click the last file in the group.
To select a group of files that are next to
each other
Press and hold Ctrl while you select the
files that you want.
To select a group of files that are not next
to each other
5
Click Recover Files.
6
In the Recover My Files dialog box, do one of the following:
■ Click Original folders to restore your files to the same folder where they
existed when they were backed up.
If you want to replace the original files, check Overwrite existing files. If
you do not check this option, a number is added to the file name The
original file is untouched.
Caution: The Overwrite existing files option replaces your original files
(or the files of the same names that are currently stored at that location)
with the files that you are restoring.
Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
Recovering files and folders by using file and folder backup data
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