Norton Ghost backs up your computer by taking a snapshot of everything that is stored on your computer's hard disk. Each snapshot is stored on your computer as a recovery point. A recovery point is a point in time from which you can recover your computer (or individual files or folders) back to the way it was when the recovery point was created.

The following table describes the two types of recovery points: independent recovery points and recovery point sets:

Recovery Point Type	Description
Independent recovery point	Creates a complete, independent copy of the drives you selected. This backup type requires more storage space.
Recovery point set	Includes the following: A base recovery point (a complete copy of your entire drive, similar to an independent recovery point) Additional recovery points that capture only incremental changes made to your computer since the creation of the base recovery point

Regardless of which type of recovery points your backups create, recovery points require space on your computer. Too many of them can take up space that you might need for other things.

You can manually optimize your recovery point storage, or you can let Norton Ghost do it for you.
For more information on optimizing recovery points, read Optimizing restore points in Norton Ghost 10.0.

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