Symantec GHOST 14 Manual de usuario

Norton Ghost™

Norton Ghost User's Guide

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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 3

Chapter 1 Introducing Norton Ghost™ ............................................... 13

Getting started ............................................................................ 13

What's new in Norton Ghost 14.0 .................................................... 14

New features and enhancements added in the previous

release ........................................................................... 15

About the Advanced page .............................................................. 17

Where to find more information ...................................................... 18

Chapter 2 Installing Norton Ghost ...................................................... 19

Preparing for installation ............................................................... 19

System requirements .............................................................. 19

Supported file systems and removable media .............................. 20

Unavailable features ............................................................... 21

Installing Norton Ghost ................................................................. 22

Completing the installation ...................................................... 24

Activating Norton Ghost later ................................................... 25

Setting up your first backup ..................................................... 25

Updating Norton Ghost ................................................................. 25

Uninstalling the product ................................................................ 26

Chapter 3 Ensuring the recovery of your computer ........................ 27

About ensuring the recovery of your computer .................................. 27

Testing Symantec Recovery Disk ..................................................... 28

If driver validation fails ................................................................. 28

Creating a custom Symantec Recovery Disk CD .................................. 29

Chapter 4 Getting Started .................................................................... 31

Key product components ............................................................... 31

How you use Norton Ghost ............................................................. 32

Starting Norton Ghost ................................................................... 33

Configuring Norton Ghost default options ........................................ 34

Selecting a default backup destination ....................................... 36

Contents

Adjusting the effects of a backup on computer performance ........... 37

Adjusting default tray icon settings ........................................... 38

Managing file types ............................................................... 39

Using aliases for external drives ................................................ 41

Configuring FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy ....................... 42

Logging Norton Ghost messages ............................................... 42

Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages ............. 44

Chapter 5 Best practices for backing up your data ........................ 47

About backing up your data ............................................................ 47

Choosing a backup type ................................................................. 48

Best practices for backing up ......................................................... 48

About backups ....................................................................... 49

Before you back up ................................................................. 49

During a backup ..................................................................... 51

When the backup is complete ................................................... 51

Additional tips about backups ......................................................... 52

After defining your backup job ........................................................ 53

Viewing the properties of a backup job ....................................... 53

About selecting a backup destination .............................................. 54

About backing up dual-boot computers ............................................ 56

Chapter 6 Backing up entire drives .................................................... 57

Defining a drive-based backup ....................................................... 57

Running a One Time Backup ..................................................... 63

Files excluded from drive-based backups .................................... 65

About network credentials ....................................................... 66

Run command files during a backup .......................................... 66

Setting advanced options for drive-based backups .............................. 68

Editing advanced backup options .............................................. 69

About recovery point encryption .............................................. 70

Verifying a recovery point after creation .................................... 71

Viewing the progress of a backup .............................................. 72

About setting a compression level for drive-based backups ................... 72

About Offsite Copy ....................................................................... 73

How Offsite Copy works ................................................................. 73

Using external drives as your Offsite Copy destination .................. 74

Using a network server as your Offsite Copy destination ................ 75

Using an FTP server as your Offsite Copy destination .................... 76

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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

9Contents

Customize status reporting ........................................................... 113

Viewing drive details ................................................................... 114

Improving the protection level of a drive ......................................... 115

Using event log information to troubleshoot problems ...................... 116

Chapter 11 Exploring the contents of a recovery point .................. 119

About exploring recovery points ................................................... 119

Exploring a recovery point through Windows Explorer ...................... 120

Mounting a recovery point from Windows Explorer ..................... 121

Opening files within a recovery point ............................................. 121

Using a search engine .................................................................. 122

Unmounting a recovery point drive ............................................... 123

Viewing the drive properties of a recovery point ............................... 123

Chapter 12 Managing backup destinations ...................................... 125

About backup destinations ........................................................... 125

How backup data works ............................................................... 125

About drive-based backups ..................................................... 126

About file and folder backups .................................................. 126

Managing recovery points ............................................................ 127

Cleaning up old recovery points ............................................... 127

Deleting a recovery point set ................................................... 128

Deleting recovery points within a set ........................................ 128

Making copies of recovery points ............................................ 129

Converting a recovery point to a virtual disk format .......................... 130

Managing file and folder backup data ............................................. 133

Viewing how much file and folder backup data is being

stored ........................................................................... 133

Limiting the number of file versions to keep .............................. 134

Manually deleting files from your file and folder backup .............. 134

Finding versions of a file or folder ............................................ 134

Automating management of backup data ........................................ 135

Moving your backup destination .................................................... 136

Chapter 13 Recovering files, folders, or entire drives ..................... 139

About recovering lost data ........................................................... 139

Recovering files and folders by using file and folder backup data ......... 139

Recovering files and folders by using a recovery point ....................... 141

Opening files and folders stored in a recovery point .................... 143

If you cannot find the files or folders you want ........................... 143

Recovering a secondary drive ........................................................ 144

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