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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
Chapter 7 Backing up files and folders .............................................. 79
Defining a file and folder backup .................................................... 79
Folders excluded by default from file and folder backups ..................... 82
Chapter 8 Running and managing backup jobs ............................... 83
Running an existing backup job immediately .................................... 83
Run a backup with options ....................................................... 84
Adjusting the speed of a backup ..................................................... 85
Stopping a backup or recovery task .................................................. 86
Verifying that a backup is successful ............................................... 86
Editing backup settings ................................................................. 87
Enabling event-triggered backups ................................................... 87
Enabling Symantec ThreatCon Response .................................... 88
Editing a backup schedule ............................................................. 89
Turning off a backup job ............................................................... 90
Deleting backup jobs .................................................................... 90
Adding users who can back up your computer ................................... 90
Chapter 9 Backing up remote computers from your
computer ......................................................................... 93
About backing up other computers from your computer ...................... 93
Adding computers to the Computer List ............................................ 94
Deploying the agent ...................................................................... 95
Using the Norton Ghost Agent ....................................................... 97
Managing the agent through Windows Services ................................. 98
Best practices for using services ..................................................... 99
Opening Services ................................................................. 100
Starting or stopping the agent service ...................................... 100
Setting up recovery actions when the agent does not start ............ 101
Viewing Norton Ghost Agent dependencies ............................... 102
Controlling access to Norton Ghost ............................................... 103
Running Norton Ghost using different user rights ...................... 105
Chapter 10 Monitoring the status of your backups ......................... 107
About monitoring backups ........................................................... 107
Rescanning a computer’s hard disk .......................................... 108
Monitoring backup protection from the Home page .......................... 108
Monitoring backup protection from the Status page ......................... 109
Configuring Norton Ghost to send SNMP traps ................................. 112
About the Norton Ghost management information base .............. 113
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