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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
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Advantages and disadvantages of backup destinations (continued)
DisadvantagesAdvantagesBackup destination
■ Must have supported NIC
drivers to restore from
the recovery environment
■ Must understand and
assign the appropriate
rights for users who will
run backups and restore
data
■ Fast backup and recovery
■ Can schedule unattended
backups
■ Inexpensive because
drive space can be
overwritten repeatedly
■ Protection from local
hard drive failure
■ Off-site storage (through
existing network backup
strategies)
Network drive
(recommended)
■ Protection from hard
drive failure
■ Ideal for off-site storage
■ Reserves hard drive space
for other uses
Removable media (local)
About backing up dual-boot computers
You can back up dual-boot computers, even if you have drives (partitions) that
are hidden in the operating system from which you run Norton Ghost.
When you run a drive backup, the entire contents of each drive is captured in a
recovery point. When you restore a drive, the recovered drive is bootable.
Note: In order for your computer to boot the same from a restored system as it
did from the original configuration, you must back up, and then restore, every
drive that includes operating system boot information.
You should not create incremental backups of shared data drives if Norton Ghost
is installed on both operating systems and they are both set to manage the shared
drive.
You might encounter issues if you try to use the Norton Ghost LightsOut Restore
feature on dual-boot systems. It is not supported.
Best practices for backing up your data
About backing up dual-boot computers
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