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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
See “About Offsite Copy” on page 73.
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Click Next.
Note: You cannot use an encrypted folder as your backup destination. You
can choose to encrypt your backup data to prevent another user from
accessing it.
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On the Options page, select from the following options:
Type a name for your backup.Name
Select one of the following compression
levels for the recovery point.:
■ None
■ Standard
■ Medium
■ High
See “About setting a compression level for
drive-based backups” on page 72.
The results can vary depending on the types
of files that are saved in the drive.
Compression
Select this option to automatically test
whether a recovery point or set of files is
valid or corrupt.
Verify recovery point after creation
Select this option to limit the number of
recovery point sets that can be saved for this
backup. You can limit the number of recovery
point sets to reduce the risk of filling up the
hard drive with recovery points. Each new
recovery point set replaces the oldest set on
your backup destination drive.
Limit the number of recovery point sets
saved for this backup
Select this option to let a search engine, such
as Google Desktop, index all of the file names
that are contained in each recovery point.
By indexing the file names, you can then use
your search engine to locate files you want
to restore.
See “About using a search engine to search
recovery points” on page 175.
Enable search engine support
Backing up entire drives
Defining a drive-based backup
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