Converting A Recovery Point To A Virtual Disk Format - Symantec GHOST 14 Manual

130 Managing backup destinations

Converting a recovery point to a virtual disk format

Converting a recovery point to a virtual disk format
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Select which recovery point to copy, and then click OK.
4
On the Welcome page of the Copy Recovery Point Wizard, click Next.
5
Select the recovery point that you want to copy.
Recovery point sets appear as single recovery points. Check View all recovery
points to display all incremental recovery points that are included within
the recovery point sets.
6
Click Next.
7 Do one of the following:
In the Folder box, type the path to which you want to copy the recovery
point.
Click Browse to locate the folder to which you want to copy the recovery
point, and then click OK.
8
Select a level of compression for the copies of the recovery points.
See "About setting a compression level for drive-based backups"
9
If you want to verify whether a recovery point is valid once the copy is
complete, check Verify recovery point after creation.
10
Click Advanced, and then select from the following options:
Divide into smaller files to simplify archiving
Use password
See "Setting advanced options for drive-based backups"
11 Click OK.
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Click Next, review the options that you selected, and then click Finish.
Once the recovery points are safely copied, you can delete them from your
computer.
See "Deleting a recovery point set"
You can use Norton Ghost to convert recovery points of a physical computer to a
VMWare Virtual Disk (.vmdk) or a Microsoft Virtual Disk (.vhd).
Virtual disks created from recovery points are supported by the following
platforms:
VMware GSX Server 3.1 and 3.2
VMware Server 1.0
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