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Everything posted by Lennart_T
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Staged Backup strategies and advice
Lennart_T replied to backy's topic in Strategy, Scripts and General Use
I think tape stations always have hardware compression. I don't even think you can turn it off (in Retrospect). So trying to turn on software compression is useless, I'm afraid. -
Staged Backup strategies and advice
Lennart_T replied to backy's topic in Strategy, Scripts and General Use
That's bad. One workaround would be to schedule both the backup and the transfer to the same execution unit. Then the backup will have to wait for the transfer to finish (or vice versa). -
Staged Backup strategies and advice
Lennart_T replied to backy's topic in Strategy, Scripts and General Use
I think Retrospect will wait for the transfer to finish. You don't even have to update the scripts. Just use the "New Backup Set" backup (or transfer) as outlined here, and Retrospect will update the script for you: https://www.retrospect.com/en/documentation/user_guide/win/fundamentals#backup-actions -
Trying to select multiple Favorites in a Copy Script?
Lennart_T replied to Gintzler's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
"Archive" is not a "Copy" and not a "Backup". "Archive" does indeed remove the originals after the copy is done. Only "Backup" uses media sets. -
Trying to select multiple Favorites in a Copy Script?
Lennart_T replied to Gintzler's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
BEWARE that if you happen to lose the originals 10 seconds after you recycled, you better have another backup. -
Trying to select multiple Favorites in a Copy Script?
Lennart_T replied to Gintzler's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
It does NOT. It deletes the unwanted files from the DESTINATION, so both the source and the destination contains the same files. No more, no less. -
Trying to select multiple Favorites in a Copy Script?
Lennart_T replied to Gintzler's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Did version 6 do this differently? (I mean was able to have multiple sources on a Copy?) -
Trying to select multiple Favorites in a Copy Script?
Lennart_T replied to Gintzler's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
From Retrospect's User Guide at https://www.retrospect.com/en/documentation/user_guide/mac/operations#copying By the nature of the copy operation, you may only copy one Source to one Destination. The source can be a volume or a Favorite Folder from a volume. That means you must use three Copy scripts with three different destinations. From the User Guide: Warning: When you copy all files and folders from one disk to another, Retrospect deletes any data that may already be on the destination volume. Be careful! -
In addition to David's excellent advice of the whole procedure, let me just add a little piece of advice: I think you are going one level too deep in the folder structure. You should see the folder containing the RDB files in the list, select it (single-click) and the click OK (not Open).
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Error -2,265 during grooming
Lennart_T replied to ByTheC's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
It is, but only "sort of". When you create a disk media set, you specify how much of the disk it can use. When the ongoing backup is going to reach that limit, a grooming process starts. That happens in the middle of a backup and can take hours. That means the completion of the backup can be delayed by hours. For that reason, it is advised to schedule groom scripts every once in a while. I suggest once every Saturday or Sunday. -
Rebuild catalog - Problem with one of the tapes
Lennart_T replied to oslomike's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Off topic: If you don't know, it's a paraphrase on "Schrödinger's cat": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat -
Error -2,265 during grooming
Lennart_T replied to ByTheC's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Although I have not experienced that particular error, I think grooming is much more stable in the current version of Retrospect (17.5.x). -
Thanks for reporting back with the result.
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In addition to David Hertzberg's advice, you may optionally want to "transfer" the old backups to the new backup set. See page 144 in Retrospect Windows 16 User's Guide.
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Ignore Preboot, Update and VM?
Lennart_T replied to denno's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
It means those files were changed in between the time they were backed up and the time they were compared (the version still on disk and the version in the backup). It seems as the user was (actively) using the Photos application during the backup process. I shouldn't worry about that. -
My pleasure. Off topic: Swedish is my native language, I know English quite well (including SOME differences between British English and American English) and I studied German in (elementary and high) school for five years in the seventies. But since I don't practice German on a regular basis, I have forgotten most of it. Oh, I made a business trip to Paris (France, not Texas ) in 2000 so I learned to SAY two sentences in French: "I don't understand. Do you speak English?" But DON'T ask me to SPELL it in French.
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It might be that you are one folder level too deep. Go up one level, so "1-Daten Wochentlich-Ung" is in the (now) empty list. Select it and then click "OK" (not "Öffnen").
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Rebuild catalog - Problem with one of the tapes
Lennart_T replied to oslomike's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
I think David meant source tape and destination tape, respectively (during the copy operation). MY point was to mark tape 1 as missing during (or before) the recatalog operation. I'm sorry I didn't make MY point more clear. -
Rebuild catalog - Problem with one of the tapes
Lennart_T replied to oslomike's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
That is what I was thinking after turning off my Mac and going to bed last night. -
Rebuild catalog - Problem with one of the tapes
Lennart_T replied to oslomike's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Try a cleaning tape, perhaps? -
locate cloud media set on new retro server?
Lennart_T replied to 137491D092A58DE1E040000A2A666149's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
I guess you do something wrong. Retrospect should not create an empty media set when you use the "Locate" function. Instead it should add the existing media set. I suggest you remove the new (empty) media set and try again with the "Locate" button. I just tried it here and it worked fine, albeit with a disk media set. -
Complete Restore doesn't use all five tapes
Lennart_T replied to jbalaska63's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
At the bottom right, there is a button labelled "Retrive...". Click on it and see if you can find any more backups. -
Copying v4, v5, v6 tapes to a modern version of the app?
Lennart_T replied to oslomike's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
I do not remember. Probably not, I'm afraid. -
Copying v4, v5, v6 tapes to a modern version of the app?
Lennart_T replied to oslomike's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
I think you need to do a recatalog first and then you can do a "Copy Media Set" to a Disk media set. If you created those tapes with the "Fast catalog rebuild" option turned on, you only need the last tape for the recatalog operation. -
Complete Restore doesn't use all five tapes
Lennart_T replied to jbalaska63's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
That depends on what is on the tapes and what you tried to restore. What does the "Backups" pane show?