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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
About selecting a backup destination
You should review the following information before deciding where to store
recovery points and file and folder backup data.
Note: If you choose to use CDs or DVDs as your backup destination (not
recommended), you cannot back up to a sub-folder on the disk. Backup data must
be created at the root of CDs and DVDs.
Table 5-1 contains information that you need to consider when selecting a backup
destination.
Table 5-1
Selecting a backup destination
Information to considerBackup destination
The benefits of this option are as follows:
■ Fast backup and recovery
■ Can schedule unattended backups
■ Inexpensive because drive space can be overwritten
repeatedly
■ Off-site storage is possible
■ Reserves hard drive space for other uses
Although you can save the recovery point to the same drive
that you are backing up, it is not recommended for the
following reasons:
■ As the number or size of recovery points grows, you will
have less disk space available for regular use.
■ The recovery point is included in subsequent recovery
points of the drive, which increases the size of those
recovery points.
■ If the computer suffers a catastrophic failure, you may
not be able to recover the recovery point you need, even
if you save it to a different drive on the same hard disk.
Local hard drive, USB drive,
or FireWire drive
(recommended)
Best practices for backing up your data
About selecting a backup destination
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