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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
Type a description for the recovery point.
The description can be anything that helps
you further identify the recovery point's
contents.
Description text box
In the Advanced Options dialog box, select
any of the following options, and then click
OK.
■ Use password
■ Use Encryption
■ Divide into smaller files to simplify
archiving
■ Ignore bad sectors during copy
■ Disable SmartSector Copying
See “Setting advanced options for
drive-based backups” on page 68.
Advanced
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Click Next.
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If appropriate, in the drop-down lists, select the command file (.exe, .cmd,
.bat) that you want to run during a particular stage in the recovery point
creation process, and then specify the amount of time (in seconds) that you
want the command to run before it is stopped.
If you added the command file to the CommandFiles folder, you may need to
click Back, and then Next to see the files in each stage’s drop-down list.
See “Run command files during a backup ” on page 66.
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Click Next.
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Click Finish to run the backup.
Files excluded from drive-based backups
The following files are intentionally excluded from drive-based backups:
■ hiberfil.sys
■ pagefile.sys
These files contain temporary data that can take up a large amount of disk space.
They are not needed, and there is no negative impact to your computer system
after a complete system recovery.
These files do appear in recovery points, but they are placeholders. They contain
no data.
65Backing up entire drives
Defining a drive-based backup