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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
To create a new file type and extensions
1
On the main menu bar, click Tasks > Options.
2
Click File Types.
3
At the bottom of the File types list, click the Add a file type (+) button to add
a file type category.
4
Type a descriptive name of the new file type category, and then press Enter.
5
At the bottom of the Extensions for list, click the Addanextension (+) button,
and then type an asterisk (*) and a period, followed by the extension of the
file type you want to define, and then press Enter.
6
Click OK.
To edit a file type and extensions
1
On the main menu bar, click Tasks > Options.
2
Click File Types.
3
Select a file type from the File types list, and then do one of the following:
■ Click the Rename a file type button (at the right of the - button) to edit
the name of the selected file type.
■ Select an extension in the Extensions for column and click the Rename
an extension button (at the right of the - button) to edit the name of the
extension.
■ Click either the Restore default file types list or the Restore default
extension list button to restore all default file types or extensions.
Caution: Any file types and extensions you have set up are removed. Once
removed, you will have to add them again manually.
4
Click OK.
To delete a file type (and all of its extensions)
1
On the main menu bar, click Tasks > Options.
2
Select a file type in the File types column.
You cannot delete a default file type. You can delete all but one extension of
a default file type, and you can add additional extensions to a default file type.
3
Click the Remove a file type (-) button , and then click OK.
Use this same procedure to remove file extensions from the Extensions for
list.
Getting Started
Configuring Norton Ghost default options
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