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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
The Norton Ghost Agent does, however, have a tray icon available from the
Windows system tray to provide feedback of current conditions and to perform
common tasks. For example, you can view backup jobs created for the computer,
reconnect the Norton Ghost Agent, or cancel a task that is currently running.
You can install the agent manually by visiting each computer you want to protect
and install the agent from the product CD. A more efficient method, however, is
to use the Norton Ghost Deploy Agent feature to remotely install the agent on a
computer in the domain whose data you want to protect.
To use the Norton Ghost Agent
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On the Windows system tray, do one of the following:
■ Right-click the Norton Ghost tray icon, and then click Reconnect to restart
the service automatically.
You cannot run a backup until the service is running.
■ If Norton Ghost is installed on the computer, double-click the Norton
Ghost tray icon to start the program.
If only the agent is installed, double-clicking the tray icon only displays
an About dialog box.
■ If the computer has Norton Ghost installed, right-click the Norton Ghost
tray icon to display a menu of common Norton Ghost Agent tasks.
Managing the agent through Windows Services
The Norton Ghost Agent is a Windows service that runs in the background.
It provides the following:
■ locally running scheduled backup jobs, even when there are no users, or an
unprivileged user, logged on to the computer
■ Allows administrators to remotely back up computers throughout an enterprise
from Norton Ghost running on another computer.
See “Using the Norton Ghost Agent ” on page 97.
To use the features of Norton Ghost, the Norton Ghost Agent must be started and
properly configured. You can use the Windows Services tool to manage and
troubleshoot the agent.
Note: To manage the Norton Ghost Agent, you must be logged on as a local
administrator.
You can manage the Norton Ghost Agent in the following ways:
Backing up remote computers from your computer
Managing the agent through Windows Services
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