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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
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Minimum system requirements (continued)
Minimum RequirementsComponent
The following memory requirements are grouped by key components:
■ Norton Ghost Agent: 256 MB
■ Norton Ghost user interface and Recovery Point Browser: 256 MB
■ Symantec Recovery Disk: 512 MB minimum
Note: If you are installing a multilingual or double-byte version of the product, you must
have a minimum of 768 MB of RAM to run the Symantec Recovery Disk.
■ Norton Ghost LightsOut Restore feature: 1 GB
RAM
■ When installing the entire product: Approximately 250 to 300 MB, depending on the language
of the product you are installing
■ Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0: 280 MB of hard disk space is required for 32-bit computers,
and 610 MB is required for 64-bit computers
■ Recovery points: Sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing
recovery points.
The size of recovery points depends on the amount of data you have backed up and the type
of recovery point being stored.
See “Best practices for backing up ” on page 48.
■ Norton Ghost LightsOut Restore feature: 2 GB
Available hard
disk space
The drive can be any speed, but it must be capable of using as the startup drive from the BIOS.
Norton Ghost uses Gear Software technology. To verify that your CD writer or DVD writer is
compatible, visit http://www.gearsoftware.com/support/recorders/index.cfm. You can look up
information about your writer if you know the name of the manufacturer and model number
of your writer.
CD-ROM or
DVD-ROM drive
The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is required to run Norton Ghost.
If the .NET Framework is not already installed, then you will be prompted to install it after
Norton Ghost is installed and your computer is rebooted.
Software
The following virtual platforms are supported:
■ VMware GSX Server 3.1 and 3.2
■ VMware Server 1.0 (replacement/rename for GSX Server)
■ VMware ESX Server 2.5 and 3.0
■ VMware Infrastructure 3 (replacement/rename for ESX Server)
■ Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
Virtual platforms
(for converted
recovery points)
Supported file systems and removable media
Norton Ghost supports the following file systems and removable media:
Installing Norton Ghost
Preparing for installation
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