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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
Backing up entire drives
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ Defining a drive-based backup
■ Setting advanced options for drive-based backups
■ About setting a compression level for drive-based backups
■ About Offsite Copy
■ How Offsite Copy works
Defining a drive-based backup
A drive-based backup takes a snapshot of your entire hard drive, capturing every
bit of information that is stored on it for later retrieval. All of your files, folders,
desktop settings, programs, and your operating system are captured into a recovery
point. You can then use that recovery point to restore individual files or folders
or your entire computer.
For optimum protection, you should define a drive-based backup and run it on a
regular basis.
By default, scheduled independent recovery points or recovery point set names
are appended with 001.v2i, 002.v2i, and so forth. Recovery point set names are
appended with _i001.iv2i, _i002.iv2i, and so forth. For example, if your base
recovery point is called C_Drive001.v2i, the first incremental recovery point is
called C_Drive001_i001.iv2i.
To define a drive-based backup
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On the Home page, click Run or Manage Backups.
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In the Run or Manage Backups window, click Define New.
If you have not yet defined a backup, the Easy Setup dialog appears instead.
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