Can Retrospect9 restore all versions of backup files from v6?

[xavier25]

Can Retrospect9 take existing retrospect tape backups which went into service in 2004, and extract the contents to disk while maintaining all of the incremental version types of backups? That is; can we copy our existing tape backups to disk in order to more quickly recover a previous version of a file from an old backup? The versioning is important as it is a tool for documenting copyrights and trademarks we hold, and some of the tapes are getting very old. We would like to move to a more flexible D2D2T setup using Retrospect9, for a 3 client in house marketing group, completely Mac based. *

 

Specifics:

Retrospect Backup version 6.1

to VXA-1 tapes

Xserve G4 OSX10.3

500Gb Raid (just now starting to get full)

3 Mac clients

 

*Note:

We will be upgrading hardware during this

transition.

 

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated

thanks,

xavier25

[xavier25]

Even a short reply would be appreciated here. We hope to get new hardware next week to replace the old G4 Xserve and upgrade to Retrospect9 if it will do the job for us.

 

thanks!

xavier

[xavier25]

Here's the answer from Retrospect Support:

 

 

Agent Response:

 

 

 

Before Retrospect 9 can read your old 6.1 tapes, you will need to perform a catalog rebuild from all of the tapes in the 6.1 tape backup set. Once the catalog rebuild is done, you can use the "Copy Media Set" script to copy the contents (and snapshots) to a Disk media Set. That will allow for faster restores from disk. A media set transfer will transfer all versions of all files along with the snapshot data. You can then recover different version of backed up files.

 

Retrospect 9 will require an Intel Mac and Mac OS 10.5.8 or later

 

Thank you for using Retrospect,

The Retrospect Support Team

[Lennart_T]

Even a short reply would be appreciated here.

This is just a user-to-user discussion.

 

You did the right thing to contact Retrospect support since you needed a prompt reply.

[xavier25]

They were really fast! I posted here first partly because of your thorough responses to other questions on the forum, but I understand the forum is for free.