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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
A
access
allow or deny users or groups 103
activate the product 25
Advanced page
about 17
showing or hiding 17
agent
dependencies, viewing 100, 102
Microsoft Services 98
set security for 103
setting up recovery actions for 101
starting, stopping, or restarting 100
troubleshooting in Services 98
Agent Deployment
using 95
Windows Vista 95
agents
setting security for 90
archive
recovery points 129
B
backing up dual-boot computers 56
backup data
automating management of 135
password protecting 69
storing on removable media 56
using for recovering files and folders 139
backup destination
how it works 125
moving 136
backup jobs
edit advanced options 69
backup status 86
backup storage
about 125
backups
allowing other users to define 90
best practices 48–49
cancelling 86
backups (continued)
define first 25
defining and running 47
defining drive-based 57
defining file and folder 79
deleting 90
disabling 90
dual-boot computers 56
edit advanced options 69
edit schedule 89
edit settings 87
event-triggered 87
file and folder 126
folders excluded during file and folder
backups 82
ignoring bad sectors during drive-based 69
managing storage of 125
monitoring 107
one time 63
other computers from your computer 93
run immediately 83
run with options 84
running command files during 66
selecting a backup destination 54
setting advanced options for drive-based 61, 65
setting advanced options for file and folder 80
slowing down to improve PC performance 85
speeding up 85
status 109
status of 86
storage location 36
things to do after 51
things to do before 49
things to do during 51
tips 52
tips for a better backup 48
types of 48
verifying success 86, 109
viewing progress 72
benefits of using Norton Ghost
best practices, services 99
Index