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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
Adjusting the effects of a backup on computer performance ........... 37
Adjusting default tray icon settings ........................................... 38
Managing file types ............................................................... 39
Using aliases for external drives ................................................ 41
Configuring FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy ....................... 42
Logging Norton Ghost messages ............................................... 42
Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages ............. 44
Chapter 5 Best practices for backing up your data ........................ 47
About backing up your data ............................................................ 47
Choosing a backup type ................................................................. 48
Best practices for backing up ......................................................... 48
About backups ....................................................................... 49
Before you back up ................................................................. 49
During a backup ..................................................................... 51
When the backup is complete ................................................... 51
Additional tips about backups ......................................................... 52
After defining your backup job ........................................................ 53
Viewing the properties of a backup job ....................................... 53
About selecting a backup destination .............................................. 54
About backing up dual-boot computers ............................................ 56
Chapter 6 Backing up entire drives .................................................... 57
Defining a drive-based backup ....................................................... 57
Running a One Time Backup ..................................................... 63
Files excluded from drive-based backups .................................... 65
About network credentials ....................................................... 66
Run command files during a backup .......................................... 66
Setting advanced options for drive-based backups .............................. 68
Editing advanced backup options .............................................. 69
About recovery point encryption .............................................. 70
Verifying a recovery point after creation .................................... 71
Viewing the progress of a backup .............................................. 72
About setting a compression level for drive-based backups ................... 72
About Offsite Copy ....................................................................... 73
How Offsite Copy works ................................................................. 73
Using external drives as your Offsite Copy destination .................. 74
Using a network server as your Offsite Copy destination ................ 75
Using an FTP server as your Offsite Copy destination .................... 76
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