infosys@progressivedyn.com Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 We use USB connected external drives as the media for our backups. It would be nice to be able to boot a client from the Retrospect DR CD, connect the USB media and recover that client directly instead of having to set it up and run a recovery job from the server. I believe that it would be much faster, and would not use network resources (bogging everyone else down) to transmit the backed up data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnymacgo Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 You don't say what version of Retrospect you are using. I use Retrospect for Windows V10.5 Multi-Server and I have already used that method. I had a client/laptop that the hard drive died on. I hooked my usb disk with the latest Retrospect backup on it directly to the laptop (that same disk also has the catalog on it). I then booted the laptop off of the DR CD and prepared the new disk on the laptop. Did a full disk restore. When the restore was done I removed the usb disk and the DR CD and the laptop booted off the newly restored boot disk just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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