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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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Click EnableGoogleDesktop File andFolderRecovery if you want use Google
Desktop to search your recovery points for the files and folders that you want
to recover.
If you select this option, Norton Ghost automatically catalogs each file as it
creates a recovery point. Google Desktop can then use this catalog to search
for files by name. It does not index the content of the files.
Note: This option is available only if Google Desktop already is installed on
your computer. If you plan to install Google Desktop, you can enable search
engine support later.
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Click Finish.
Activating Norton Ghost later
If you do not activate Norton Ghost before the trial period ends, the software stops
working. However, you can activate the product at any time after the trial period
expires.
To activate Norton Ghost at any time after installation
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On the Help menu, click Unlock Trial Product.
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Refer to step 2 in the To complete the installation procedure.
Setting up your first backup
Unless you unchecked the Run Easy Setup check box during the setup wizard, the
Easy Setup window appears. If you don't run Easy Setup during the setup wizard,
it appears the first time you open the Run or Manage Backups window.
When the Easy Setup window opens, you can either accept the default drive and
file and folder backup settings, or you can click on any of the settings to modify
them.
If you want the new backup to run immediately, be sure to select Run backup now,
and then click OK.
Updating Norton Ghost
You can receive software updates that are associated with your version of the
product over your Internet connection. LiveUpdate connects to the Symantec
LiveUpdate server and automatically downloads and installs updates for each
Symantec product that you own.
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Updating Norton Ghost