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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
You can split the recovery point into smaller files and
specify the maximum size (in MB) for each file.
For example, if you plan to copy a recovery point to ZIP disks
from your backup destination, specify a file size of 100 MB
or less, according to the size of each ZIP disk.
Divide into smaller files to
simplify archiving
SmartSector technology speeds up the copying process by
only copying the hard-disk sectors that contain data.
However, in some cases, you might want to copy all sectors
in their original layout, whether or not they contain data.
This option lets you copy used and unused hard-disk sectors.
This option increases processing time and usually results
in a larger recovery point.
Disable SmartSector Copying
This option lets you run a backup even if there are bad
sectors on the hard disk. Although most drives do not have
bad sectors, the potential for problems increases during the
lifetime of the hard disk.
Ignore bad sectors during
copy
This option sets a password on the recovery point when it
is created. Passwords can include standard characters, not
extended characters or symbols. (Use characters with an
ASCII value of 128 or lower.)
A user must type this password before restoring a backup
or viewing the contents of the recovery point.
Use password
You can encrypt your recovery point data to add another
level of protection to your recovery points.
You can choose from the following encryption levels:
■ Low (8+ character password)
■ Medium (16+ character password)
■ High (32+ character password).
Use AES encryption
Editing advanced backup options
After you define a backup, you can go back at any time and edit the advanced
options you chose when you first defined the backup.
To edit advanced backup options
1
On the Home or Tasks page, click Run or Manage Backups.
Select the backup you want to edit, and then click Edit Settings.
2
Click Next twice.
3
Click Advanced.
69Backing up entire drives
Setting advanced options for drive-based backups










