Create Weekly Baseline Recovery Points & Daily Incrementals
Here is the procedure to create Recovery Points with Ghost 12 » Weeky Baselines & Daily Incrementals.
- Start Ghost 12.
- Click Tasks icon.
- Click Run or Manage Backups.
- Click Define New.
- Dot in Backup my computer » Next
- Select the drive to backup (usually the OS drive) » Next
- Dot in Recovery point set (recommended) » Next
- Choose location and filename » Next
- Choose desired compression (I choose High, but it's your choice)
- Tick Verify recovery point after creation.
- Choose your Limit. I don't tick this item. I manually delete the recovery points after 3 to 4 weeks, ignore Advanced unless you want to split the image » Next
- Ignore the Command Files window » Next
- Tick Schedule and tick all days except the day of your planned Baseline Recovery Point. Choose your time.
- Click the drop down arrow and choose Weekly.
- Click Custom » tick the day of your planned Baseline Recovery Point » select a time » OK » Next
- Finish.
For more info related to this topic, see » Defining a drive-based backup (page 45+) in the Norton Ghost 12.0 User's Guide. Note that this link is from an FTP site, which can take 10-20 seconds for the PDF page to load.
The official Symantec Ghost 12 User guide is posted » HERE (206-page PDF, 2.6 MB)
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