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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
Two logging methods are available: Norton Ghost logging, and the Windows
application log.
From the Options page, you can configure both methods.
To configure a Norton Ghost log file
1
On the main menu bar, click Tasks > Options.
2
Under Notifications, click Log File.
3
Click the Select the priority and type of messages drop-down list and select
the priority level at which a message should be logged.
Send all messages, regardless of priority
levels.
All messages
Send only medium and high priority
messages.
Medium and high priority messages
Send only high priority messages.High priority messages only
Do not send any messages, regardless of
priority levels.
No messages
4
Select one or more of the following options:
■ Errors
■ Warnings
■ Information
5
In the Log file location field, enter a path to where the log file should be
created and stored.
If you don't know the path, click Browse and select a location.
6
In the Maximum file size field, specify a maximum size (in kilobytes) that the
log file is allowed to grow.
The file is kept within the limit you set by replacing the oldest logged items
in the file with new items as they occur.
7
Click OK.
To configure which product events are written to a Windows event log
1
On the main menu bar, click Tasks > Options.
2
Under Notifications, click Event Log.
43Getting Started
Configuring Norton Ghost default options










