Samsung MZ-5PA128B User Manual - Page 82

82 Backing up entire drives How Offsite Copy works 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" on page 82. See "About using a network server as your Offsite Copy destination" on page 84. See "About using an FTP server as your Offsite Copy destination" on page 85. See "To define a drive-based backup" on page 60. See "Editing backup settings" on page 95. About using external drives as your Offsite Copy destination 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 " on page 72. Before you leave the office on Monday evening, you plug in drive A and take drive B home with you.