About Using External Drives As Your Offsite Copy Destination - Symantec GHOST - V 15.0 Manual

82 Backing up entire drives
How Offsite Copy works

About using external drives as your Offsite Copy destination

the backup job completes at 6:20 p.m., Norton Ghost detects that the Offsite Copy
destination drive is not available and the copy process is aborted. The following
morning, you plug the drive back in to the computer. Norton Ghost detects the
presence of the Offsite Copy destination drive and automatically begins copying
your recovery points.
Offsite Copy is designed to use very little system resources so that the copying
process is done in the background. This feature lets you continue to work at your
computer with little or no impact on system resources.
If an Offsite Copy destination runs out of disk space, Offsite Copy identifies the
oldest recovery points and removes them to make room for the most current
recovery points. Offsite Copy then copies the current recovery points to the Offsite
Copy destination.
See "About using external drives as your Offsite Copy destination"
See "About using a network server as your Offsite Copy destination"
See "About using an FTP server as your Offsite Copy destination"
See "To define a drive-based backup"
See "Editing backup settings"
Use an external drive as your Offsite Copy destination. This method lets you take
a copy of your data with you when you leave the office. By using two external hard
disks, you can be certain that you have a recent copy of your data both on and off
site.
For example, suppose on a Monday morning you define a new backup job of your
system drive. You choose a recovery point set as your backup job type. You set up
an external drive (A) as the first Offsite Copy destination, and another external
drive (B) as the second Offsite Copy destination. You schedule the backup job to
run every midnight except on the weekends. You also enable recovery point
encryption to protect the data that you take with you from unauthorized access.
See "About recovery point encryption "
Before you leave the office on Monday evening, you plug in drive A and take drive
B home with you.
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