14.0
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
Technical Support ............................................................................................... 3
Chapter 1 Introducing Norton Ghost™ ............................................... 13
Getting started ............................................................................ 13
What's new in Norton Ghost 14.0 .................................................... 14
New features and enhancements added in the previous
release ........................................................................... 15
About the Advanced page .............................................................. 17
Where to find more information ...................................................... 18
Chapter 2 Installing Norton Ghost ...................................................... 19
Preparing for installation ............................................................... 19
System requirements .............................................................. 19
Supported file systems and removable media .............................. 20
Unavailable features ............................................................... 21
Installing Norton Ghost ................................................................. 22
Completing the installation ...................................................... 24
Activating Norton Ghost later ................................................... 25
Setting up your first backup ..................................................... 25
Updating Norton Ghost ................................................................. 25
Uninstalling the product ................................................................ 26
Chapter 3 Ensuring the recovery of your computer ........................ 27
About ensuring the recovery of your computer .................................. 27
Testing Symantec Recovery Disk ..................................................... 28
If driver validation fails ................................................................. 28
Creating a custom Symantec Recovery Disk CD .................................. 29
Chapter 4 Getting Started .................................................................... 31
Key product components ............................................................... 31
How you use Norton Ghost ............................................................. 32
Starting Norton Ghost ................................................................... 33
Configuring Norton Ghost default options ........................................ 34
Selecting a default backup destination ....................................... 36
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