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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
To adjust the performance of a backup
1
While a backup is running, on the View menu, click Progress and
Performance.
2
Do one of the following:
■ If you want to increase the speed of your computer by reducing the speed
of the backup, drag the slider toward Slow.
■ If you want the backup to complete as quickly as possible and you are not
doing extensive work on your computer, drag the slider toward Fast.
3
When you are finished, click Hide to dismiss the Progress and Performance
dialog box.
Stopping a backup or recovery task
You can stop a backup or a recovery task that has already started.
To stop a backup or recovery task
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Do one of the following:
■ On the View menu, click ProgressandPerformance, and then click Cancel
Operation.
■ On the Windows system tray, right-click the Norton Ghost tray icon, and
then click Cancel Current Operation.
Verifying that a backup is successful
After a backup completes, you can validate the success of the backup from the
Status page to ensure you have a way to recover lost or damaged data.
The Status page contains a scrolling calendar that is aligned with each drive on
your computer. The calendar lets you quickly identify when a backup ran, and
what type of backup it was. It also identifies upcoming, scheduled backups.
See “Monitoring backup protection from the Status page ” on page 109.
Note: When you define a drive-based backup, you should select the option to verify
the recovery point after it is created.
Depending on the amount of data being backed up, this can significantly increase
the time it takes to complete the backup. However, it can ensure that you have a
valid recovery point when the backup finishes.
Running and managing backup jobs
Stopping a backup or recovery task
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