14.0
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
Norton Ghost supports FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, GUID Partition Table (GPT),
dynamic disks, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, and Linux swap partitions.
Note: You must decrypt encrypted NTFS drives before you attempt to restore them. You cannot
view the files that are in a recovery point for an encrypted NTFS drive.
Supported file
systems
You can save recovery points locally (that is, on the same computer where Norton Ghost is
installed) or to most CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R(W), and DVD+RW recorders. You can find an updated
list of supported drives on the Symantec Web site.
Norton Ghost also lets you save recovery points to most USB devices, 1394 FireWire devices,
REV, Jaz, Zip drives, and magneto-optical devices.
Removable media
Unavailable features
Norton Ghost is packaged to meet various markets. Some features might not be
available, depending on the product you have purchased. However, all features
are documented. You should be aware of which features are included with the
version of the product you have purchased. If a feature is not accessible in the
product user interface, it is likely not included with your version of the product.
Refer to the Symantec Web site for information about features included with your
version of Norton Ghost.
When you delay licensing
If you choose to delay installation of the product license (for a maximum of 30
days from the date of installation), the following features are unavailable until
you install a valid license:
■ Copy Drive
■ Create Recovery Disk
■ LightsOut Restore
■ Convert to Virtual Disk
All other features are enabled during the 30 day grace period.
If you are using an Evaluation copy of the product, it also expires after 30 days.
However, all features are enabled until the end of the evaluation period, at which
time you must purchase the product or uninstall it. You can purchase a license at
any time (even after the evaluation period expires) without reinstalling the
software.
21Installing Norton Ghost
Preparing for installation










