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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
Viewing the progress of a backup
You can view the progress of a backup while it runs to determine how much time
remains until the backup completes.
To view the progress of a backup
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While a backup is running, on the View menu, click Progress and
Performance.
About setting a compression level for drive-based
backups
During the creation of a recovery point, compression results may vary, depending
on the types of files saved to the drive you are backing up.
Table 6-3 describes the available compression levels.
Table 6-3
Compression levels
DescriptionCompression level
Use this option if storage space is not an issue. However, if
the backup is being saved to a busy network drive, high
compression may be faster than no compression because
there is less data to write across the network.
None
This option uses low compression for a 40 percent average
data compression ratio on recovery points. This setting is
the default.
Standard (recommended)
This option uses medium compression for a 45 precent
average data compression ratio on recovery points.
Medium
This option uses high compression for a 50 percent average
data compression ratio on recovery points. This setting is
usually the slowest method.
When a high compression recovery point is created, CPU
usage might be higher than normal. Other processes on the
computer might also be slower. To compensate, you can
adjust the operation speed of Norton Ghost. This might
improve the performance of other resource-intensive
applications that you are running at the same time.
High
Backing up entire drives
About setting a compression level for drive-based backups
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