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Norton Ghost 15.0 User's Guide
Technical Support
Contents
1. Introducing Norton Ghost™
- About Norton Ghost
- What is new in Norton Ghost
- Hiding or showing the Advanced page
- Getting more information about Norton Ghost
2. Installing Norton Ghost
- Before you install
- Installing Norton Ghost
- Updating Norton Ghost
- About uninstalling Norton Ghost
3. Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- About ensuring the recovery of your computer
- Testing Symantec Recovery Disk
- If driver validation fails
- Creating a custom Symantec Recovery Disk CD
4. Getting Started
- About key product components
- How you use Norton Ghost
- Starting Norton Ghost
- Configuring Norton Ghost default options
5. Best practices for backing up your data
- About backing up your data
- About choosing a backup type
- Best practices for backing up
- Additional tips about backups
- After defining your backup job
  - Viewing the properties of a backup job
- About selecting a backup destination
- About backing up dual-boot computers
6. Backing up entire drives
- About defining a drive-based backup
- Defining a drive-based backup
- Compression levels for drive-based backups
- Running a one-time backup from Norton Ghost
- About running a one-time backup from Symantec Recovery Disk
  - Running a one-time backup from Symantec Recovery Disk
- About Offsite Copy
- How Offsite Copy works
7. Backing up files and folders
- Defining a file and folder backup
- About folders that are excluded by default from file and folder backups
8. Running and managing backup jobs
- Running an existing backup job immediately
- Running a backup with options
  - Backup options
- Adjusting the speed of a backup
- Stopping a task
- Verifying that a backup is successful
- Editing backup settings
- Enabling event-triggered backups
  - About Symantec ThreatCon
- 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
- About backing up other computers from your computer
- Adding computers to the Computer List
- Deploying the Norton Ghost Agent
- Using the Norton Ghost Agent
- About managing the Norton Ghost Agent through Windows Services
- About best practices for using services
- Controlling access to Norton Ghost
  - Running Norton Ghost using different user rights
10. Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
  - Rescanning a computer’s hard disk
- Monitoring backup protection from the Home page
- Monitoring backup protection from the Status page
- About SNMP traps
  - About the Norton Ghost management information base
- Customizing the status reporting of a drive (or file and folder backups)
- Viewing drive details
- Improving the protection level of a drive
- About using event log information to troubleshoot problems
11. Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- About exploring recovery points
- Exploring a recovery point through Windows Explorer
  - Mounting a recovery point from Windows Explorer
- Opening and restoring files within a recovery point
- About using a search engine
- Dismounting a recovery point drive
- Viewing the drive properties of a recovery point
12. Managing backup destinations
- About backup destinations
- About how backup data works
  - About drive-based backups
  - About file and folder backups
- Managing recovery point storage
- Running a one-time virtual conversion
- Defining a virtual conversion job
- About managing file and folder backup data
- Automating management of backup data
- Moving your backup destination
13. Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
- About recovering lost data
- Recovering files and folders by using file and folder backup data
- Recovering files and folders using a recovery point
  - About opening files and folders stored in a recovery point
  - About finding the files or folders you want
- Recovering a secondary drive
  - Recovery options
- Restoring using LightsOut Restore
  - Summary of the LightsOut Restore process
  - Starting the LightsOut Restore Wizard
14. Recovering a computer
- About recovering a computer
- Starting a computer by using Symantec Recovery Disk
  - Configuring a computer to boot from a CD
- How to prepare to recover a computer
  - Scanning for viruses
  - Checking a hard disk for errors
- Recovering a computer
  - Edit target drive and options
- Recovering a computer from a virtual disk file
  - Virtual disk recovery options
- Recovering files and folders using Symantec Recovery Disk
  - Exploring files and folders on your computer using Symantec Recovery Disk
- About using the networking tools in Symantec Recovery Disk
- About viewing properties of recovery points and drives
  - Viewing the properties of a recovery point
  - Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point
- About the Support Utilities
15. Copying a drive
- About copying a drive
- Preparing to copy drives
- Copying one hard drive to another hard drive
  - About drive-to-drive copying options
A. Using a search engine to search recovery points
- About using a search engine to search recovery points
- Enabling search engine support
- Recovering files using Google Desktop's Search Desktop feature
  - About finding a file using Google Desktop
B. About backing up Microsoft virtual environments
- About backing up Microsoft virtual hard disks
- About backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
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