Symantec GHOST 14, Manual

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Best practices for backing
up your data
This chapter includes the following topics:
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About backing up your data
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Choosing a backup type
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Best practices for backing up
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Additional tips about backups
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After defining your backup job
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About selecting a backup destination
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About backing up dual-boot computers
About backing up your data
To back up your computer or your individual files and folders, you do the following
steps:
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Define a backup
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Run the backup
See “How you use Norton Ghost” on page 32.
When you define a backup, you make the following decisions:
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What to back up (files and folders, or an entire drive)
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Where to store the backup data (backup destination)
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Whether or not to use Offsite Copy to copy backup data to remote locations
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