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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
To configure LightsOut Restore
1
Start Norton Ghost, and then click Tasks > Set Up LightsOut Restore.
If the product is not licensed, the LightsOut Setup menu item is not available.
You must install a license file.
See “Activating Norton Ghost later” on page 25.
2
Insert your Symantec Recovery Disk CD into your CD-ROM drive, and then
click Next.
3
If necessary, specify the path to the CD-ROM drive in which you placed the
Symantec Recovery CD, and then click Next.
4
Review the list of drivers to be included, and add additional drivers or remove
the drivers you do not need, and then click Next.
5
On the Options page, do the following:
■ In the Time to display boot menu box, specify (in seconds) how long the
boot menu should display.
The default is 10 seconds.
■ If you do not want networking to start automatically when restoring the
computer through LightsOut Restore, uncheck Enable Networking.
■ If you do not want the pcAnywhere thin host to start automatically when
restoring the computer through LightsOut Restore, uncheck Enable
pcAnywhere.
■ Select the type of IP address you want to use, and then click Next.
6
If you are shown a list of network and storage drivers that are not supported
in the Symantec recovery environment, do the following:
■ Select the box next to the network driver that you would like to copy from
your current Windows installation to the Symantec recovery environment.
■ Review the list of missing storage drivers, and then click Next.
■ Browse to the locations of your missing storage and network driver files.
Note: The location that you specify should contain the fully extracted
installation package for the driver. If you have more than one missing
storage driver, you must rerun the LightsOut Restore Wizard for each
missing driver. The drivers that you select should be compatible with
Windows Vista.
149Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
About LightsOut Restore