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Using an external drive makes your backup data more
portable. Should you need to remove your critical data
from a particular location, you can quickly grab an
external drive on your way out the door.
See “About Offsite Copy” on page 73.
Consider using external drives as
your backup destination.
You can assign a nickname to each external drive to
help keep track of where your backup data is stored
for each computer you back up. Because drive letters
can change each time you unplug and plug an external
drive into your computer, a nickname ensures that
you can always know which drive you are using when
you are running Norton Ghost.
Using a nickname does not change the volume label
of a drive. A nickname simply helps you identify the
drive when using Norton Ghost.
And the nickname sticks with the drive, so that if you
plug the drive into a second computer running
another copy of Norton Ghost, the nickname appears.
Note: You might also consider placing a sticky label
on each drive that matches the nickname you've
assigned.
See “Using aliases for external drives” on page 41.
Give nicknames to your external
drives to help you easily identify
them
Use Offsite Copy to copy your latest recovery points
to either a portable storage device or a remote server.
By copying recovery points to a portable hard disk,
you can then take a copy of your data with you when
you leave the office.
See “About Offsite Copy” on page 73.
Use Offsite Copy
When you define your backups, schedule them to run
frequently so that you have recovery points that span
at least the last two months.
See “Editing a backup schedule ” on page 89.
See “Defining a drive-based backup ” on page 57.
Run backups on a regular and
frequent basis.
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