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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
Table 6-1
Recovery point creation stages
DescriptionStage
This stage occurs after a backup has started and
before a recovery point is created. You can run a
command during this stage to prepare for the
recovery point creation process. For example, you
can close any open applications that are using the
drive.
Note: If you use this option, be sure the command
file has an error recovery mechanism built into
it. If the computer has one or more services that
must be stopped at this stage (such as stopping a
non-VSS aware database or a resource intensive
application), and the command file does not
contain any form of error recovery, one or more
of the stopped services may not be restarted. An
error in the command file can cause the recovery
point creation process to stop immediately. No
other command files will run.
See “How you use Norton Ghost” on page 32.
Before data capture
This stage occurs after a snapshot is created.
Running a command during this stage is typically
a safe point for allowing services to resume
normal activity on the drive while continuing the
recovery point creation.
Because the snapshot takes only a few seconds to
create, the database is in the backup state
momentarily. A minimal number of log files are
created.
After data capture
This stage occurs after the recovery point is
created. You can run a command during this stage
to act on the recovery point itself. For example,
you can copy it to an offline location.
After recovery point creation
Setting advanced options for drive-based backups
When you define a drive-based backup, you can set the following advanced options:
Backing up entire drives
Setting advanced options for drive-based backups
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