Summary:
A
key component in creating a safe environment for your valuable information by creating a safe copy of your settings, work and programs.
Purpose:
To show the features
of backup program that uses media devices, such as tape drives, CD's
or floppies, additional hard disks, and more.
Advice:
Save the stuff you care about with the new Norton Ghost. From photos
and music to tax documents, Norton Ghost automatically backs up and
recovers everything on your computer. Reliable, efficient, and versatile,
Norton Ghost optimizes backup space, works with a wide range of media
devices, and brings back your entire system in a few short steps.
The important factors you should be looking are:
1.- Automatic backup and recovery.
2.- The ability to restore quickly from system failures.
3.- Works with a variety of media devices that will more than handle
the physical volume of information you have now & the foreseeable
future.
Why back up? Vista provides a basic backup facility in Windows Backup and Restore Center. You have the choice of a Complete or Automatic if you are running the Ultimate Enterprise or Business versions of Vista, a limited set of features in Premium and none in Vista Basic.
Norton Ghost 14.0 Enhanced Features:
FTP backup—Copies
recovery points to a FTP site for easier offsite backup management.
Offsite backup—backs up your files to network-attached storage
devices.
ThreatCon integration—Leverages intelligence by triggering incremental
backups whenever ThreatCon reaches a specified threat level.NEW! Google™ Desktop
integration – Searchable backup indexes makes recovering your data
even faster.
Remote management – Control other Norton Ghost 14.0 installations
on your network.
LightsOut Restore – Restore your system with on-disk software recovery
environment – no bootable CD required.
Create a virtual disk - Converts recovery points to a VMWare® Virtual
Disk (.vmdk) or a Microsoft® Virtual Disk (.vhd).
Key
Features:
Backs up everything on your computer—digital music, photos,
financial documents, applications, settings, operating system, etc.—in
one easy step.
Recovers your system and data even when you can't restart your operating
system.
Makes incremental backups to maximize space and save time.
Makes backups on the fly, without restarting your system.
Backs up to almost any media, including CDR/RW and DVD+-R/RW drives,
USB and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) devices, and Iomega® Zip® and
Jaz® drives.
Method:
The most important criteria to be looking for in a program are, does
it:
Automatically creates an initial backup schedule based on your computer's
configuration.
Automatically detects storage devices, analyzes your system, and offers “practice” backup
advice during installation.
Automatically monitors and optimizes backup disk space.
Trigger backups on key events, like new program installations or user
logins.
Creates new backups on demand with One Button “Backup Up Now”.
Encrypts backups to help keep them secure.
Task-based interface simplifies management and monitoring.
Displays all scheduled backups—plus the degree of backup protection
for each drive on your computer—in one convenient view.
One-step setup wizard makes installation and configuration quick and
easy.
Begins backing up to Maxtor external drives by simply pressing the Maxtor
OneTouch™ button.
Please
note that Norton Ghost requires:
Windows
XP- latest release & a
DVD or CD drive
File
systems supported for backup and recovery tasks:
FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, Dynamic Disks
Linux® EXT2/3 and Linux Swap Partitions
Hard
drives and removable media supported:
CDR/RW and DVD+-R/RW drives
USB and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) devices
Iomega® Zip® and
Jaz® drives
Microsoft® provides limited backup capabilities in their operating system as mentioned above. Be aware the Back Up files wizard in Vista does not include:
- System files (the files that Windows needs to run)
- Program files Files stored on hard disks that are formatted using the FAT file system
- Web-based e-mail that is not stored on your hard disk
- Files that are in the Recycle Bin Temporary files
- User profile settings
