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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
Note: If necessary, you can run a quick backup of a particular drive without using
a defined backup.
See “Running a One Time Backup” on page 63..
Norton Ghost can be configured to run a backup automatically when an event
occurs on your computer, such as installing a new software program.
See “Enabling event-triggered backups ” on page 87.
When you run a backup, you should close any partitioning software that is running,
such as Norton PartitionMagic. Also, you should not run any disk defragmenting
software during a backup.
You can also schedule backups to run automatically, according to a schedule.
See “Editing a backup schedule ” on page 89.
To run an existing backup immediately from the system tray
1
On the Windows desktop, right-click the Norton Ghost system tray icon.
2
Click Run Backup Now.
3
Click a backup job to start the backup.
If the menus displays No Jobs, you must start Norton Ghost and define a
backup.
To run an existing backup immediately from within Norton Ghost
1
On the Home page, click Run or Manage Backups.
2
Select a backup from the list, and then click Run Now.
Run a backup with options
If you want to quickly run an existing drive-based backup, but you want the backup
to create an alternate type of recovery point, use the Run Backup With Options
feature.
This is a unique option in that if you run an existing backup job, the recovery
point created is dictated by the type of recovery point that was created the last
time the backup job was run. Use this option to create an alternate recovery point
type.
Note: Using this option does not change the settings of the defined backup. To do
that, you must open the backup and modify its settings manually.
See “Editing a backup schedule ” on page 89.
Running and managing backup jobs
Running an existing backup job immediately
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