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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 prepare a computer in a workgroup environment to deploy the agent
1
On the Windows taskbar, right-click Start, and then click Explore .
2
On the Tools menu, click Folder Options > View.
3
On the View tab, scroll to the end of the list and verify that the Use simple
file sharing check box is unchecked, and then click OK.
4
On the Windows taskbar, click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Windows
Firewall.
5
On the Exceptions tab, check File and Printer Sharing, and then click OK.
Note: You should close any open applications before you continue with the agent
installation. If the Reboot check box is selected, the computer will automatically
restart at the end of the installation wizard.
To deploy the Norton Ghost Agent
1
On the Norton Ghost menu bar, click Computers > select a computer from
the menu.
You must have administrator rights on the computer to which you are
installing the agent.
2
Click Deploy Agent.
3
In the Deploy Norton Ghost Agent dialog box, specify the administrator user
name (or a user name that has administrator rights) and the password.
In a workgroup environment, you must specify the remote computer name.
You cannot use an IP address, even if you have successfully connected to the
computer by using an IP address.
For example, type RemoteComputerName\UserName
4
If you want to restart the computer when the agent installation is finished,
click Reboot when finished.
Note: The computer cannot be backed up until the computer is restarted.
However, be sure to warn the user of the impending reboot so that they can
save their work.
5
Click OK.
Backing up remote computers from your computer
Deploying the agent
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