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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
About LightsOut Restore
Norton Ghost LightsOut Restore lets administrators restore a computer from a
remote location. It works regardless of the state of the computer provided that
its file system is intact.
For example, suppose you are on vacation in the Bahamas and a computer on your
network in Los Angeles goes down. You can connect to the computer from your
remote location by using your server's remote connection capabilities. You can
remotely access the Symantec Recovery Disk to start the computer in the recovery
environment. You can then use the recovery environment to restore files or an
entire system partition.
LightsOut Restore installs a customized version of the Symantec recovery
environment directly to the file system on the system partition. It then places a
Symantec recovery environment boot option in the Windows boot menu. Whenever
the Symantec recovery environment boot menu option is selected, the computer
boots directly into the Symantec recovery environment by using the files that are
installed on the system partition.
LightsOut Restore uses Symantec pcAnywhere technology, the Windows boot
menu, and hardware devices such as RILO and DRAC to let an administrator
remotely control a system during the boot process.
By default, when the recovery environment boots as part of LightsOut Restore, it
automatically starts a pcAnywhere thin host. You can then use Symantec
pcAnywhere from your remote location to connect to the thin host.
After you configure LightsOut Restore and add the boot menu option, you can use
a hardware device to remotely connect to the system. After you connect, you can
power on or reboot the system into the recovery environment.
Setting up and using LightsOut Restore
This section presents an overview of setting up and using LightsOut Restore.
Note: You must install a fully licensed version of Norton Ghost before you use the
LightsOut feature to perform a restore operation. LightsOut Restore is not included
in the evaluation version.
■ Install a licensed version of Symantec pcAnywhere on a central computer that
you use for management (for example, a helpdesk computer).
■ Ensure that all of your servers can be managed remotely through a hardware
device such as RILO or DRAC.
147Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
About LightsOut Restore