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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
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Select the files and folders you want to include in your backup, and then click
Next.
Selecting file types lets Norton Ghost find and include files that match the
files you want backed up. If a file type is not included in the predefined list,
click Add File Type. You can also manually select folders or individual files.
Note: On all versions of Windows, except for Windows Vista, the My
Documents folder contains two subfolders by default: My Pictures and My
Music. These folders contain only the shortcuts to folders at another location
and not the actual files. This might lead you to think that by including My
Documents and all subfolders in your backup, your picture and music files
will get backed up.
If you intend to back up your pictures and music files, be sure to include the
actual folders where your files are stored. On Windows Vista, these folders
exist at the same level as Documents (formerly, My Documents).
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In the Name box, type a name for your new backup.
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In the Description (optional) box, type a description for the new backup.
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Click Browse to locate a folder for storing your backup data or accept the
default location.
Note: You cannot use an encrypted folder as your backup destination. If you
want to encrypt your backup data to prevent another user from accessing it,
refer to the next step.
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To modify advanced options, click Advanced. Do any of the following:
■ Click Use password, and then type a password.
Use standard characters, not extended characters or symbols. You must
type this password before you restore a backup or view its contents.
■ For an additional level of security, click Use encryption to encrypt your
file data.
■ In the Exclude group box, uncheck any of the folders you want to include
in your backup.
The folders listed are typically not used for storing personal files or folders.
These folders are backed up when you define and run a drive-based backup
of your system drive (typically C).
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Click OK, and then click Next.
Backing up files and folders
Defining a file and folder backup
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