leydon Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 I've got a lab that goes through a lot of data and it is typical for them to swap out a drive say D and install a new one that may or may not be the same size as the original drive. The original is kept in a box and will be put back into the pc at some point to get at the data. How does Retrospect see this ? Does Retrospect recognize when you swap out a drive even when it has the same drive letter and thus treat it as a new drive? In a Restore pass will there be a way to restore the snapshot of my D drive when it was a Seagate 80Gig drive versus the shapshot of the D drive when it was a Western Digital 250 G drive? My guess is Retrospect will just see a drive D and for my restore I would have to know the date I swapped out the drive to get at data from a different D drive. Does anyone from Dantz have some clarity on this? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 Hi Retrospect really doesn't care that much about drive letter or capacity. All that matters is if the files and folders on the disk exactly match those in the backup set or not. Any files and folder that don't exactly match will be backed up again. One thing to note is that Retrospect will recognize the new drive as a different disk even though the drive letters are the same. Make sure your scripts are set up to backup the new drive. For restore - you can restore any snapshot to any drive or files from any snapshot to any drive. The fact that you changed drives at one point won't affect your restores. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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