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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
DescriptionOptions
You can turn the system tray icon on or off and specify
whether to show only error messages when they occur, or to
show both error messages and other information, such as the
completion of a backup.
See “Adjusting default tray icon settings ” on page 38.
Tray Icon
Lets you manage file types and file type categories, which are
used as a method for selecting the types of files you want
included in a file and folder backup.
See “Managing file types ” on page 39.
File Types
If Google Desktop is installed on your computer when you
install Norton Ghost, you have the option of enabling Google
Desktop file and folder recovery. When you enable this feature,
you can search for files (by file name) inside a recovery point
that was created with search engine support enabled.
If Google Desktop is not installed on your computer when you
install Norton Ghost, you have the option of clicking a link to
the Web site where you can download and install Google
Desktop for free.
See “About using a search engine to search recovery points”
on page 175.
Google Desktop
Delete or rename the unique names you have given to external
drives used as backup and Offsite Copy destinations.
See “Using aliases for external drives” on page 41.
External Drives
Specify default FTP settings to be used with Offsite Copy.
See “Configuring FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy”
on page 42.
Configure FTP
Lets you specify the types of product messages to log (errors,
warnings, and information), where to store the log file, and
set a maximum file size for the log file.
See “Logging Norton Ghost messages” on page 42.
Log File
Lets you specify the types of product messages to log (errors,
warnings, and information) in the Windows event log.
See “Logging Norton Ghost messages” on page 42.
Event Log
35Getting Started
Configuring Norton Ghost default options