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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
■ Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point
Viewing properties of a recovery point
You can view various properties of a recovery point by using the Recovery Point
Browser. The following properties are available for viewing:
A user-assigned comment associated with the recovery pointDescription
The total size (in megabytes) of the recovery pointSize
The date and time that the recovery point file was createdCreated
The compression level that is used in the recovery pointCompression
Whether the entire recovery point file is spanned over
several files
Spanned
The password protection status of the selected drivePassword protected
The encryption strength that is used with the recovery pointEncryption
The format of the recovery pointFormat
The name of the computer on which the recovery point was
created
Computer name
If you enabled search engine support for the recovery point,
this property is displayed.
Catalogued
Identifies the application (Norton Ghost) that was used to
create the recovery point.
Created by
To view the properties of a recovery point
1
In the Recovery Point Browser, in the tree panel, select the recovery point
that you want to view.
2
Do one of the following:
■ On the File menu, click Properties.
■ Right-click the recovery point, and then click Properties.
Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point
You can view the following properties of a drive within a recovery point:
Recovering a computer
Viewing properties of recovery points and drives
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