mturndal Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Hi, I have tryed to restore a file and it didnt work. When looking at the media set i realised that the list of backups where incomplete. (quite a number of them where missing) When I recovered the missing backups with the recovery button I managed to restore the file. Does this have an impact on the backup or its it only concerning the restore ? Why isnt the list of backups complete in the media set ? /Mikael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 If you have a disk backup set and have grooming turned on, Retrospect shows the "grooming" number of backups. For instance, we have grooming set to keep the 5 last backups of each client, so Retrospect shows the last 5 backups of each client. If you have a tape backup set, Retrospect shows only the last backup of each source. In both cases, you can access older backups (as you have discovered). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mturndal Posted November 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 In my case I dont have grooming. When looking through all the other media sets I discovered that it was true for all of them ! Can you program the recovery function to be done on a regular basis ? Mikael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 Can you program the recovery function to be done on a regular basis ? I don't think so.You must do it if/when needed. Does it happen often that you need to restore an old backup? Do you use Retrospect as an archiving system rather than a backup system? I mean, do you normally delete the original files after they are backed up? And only rely on Retrospect to get them back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniels Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 I have found that if you are using tape backups Retrospect will not show all the backups for a backup set unless those tapes are present in the storage device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mturndal Posted November 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2012 Hi, I cant tell since i have not payed attention to this issue. I have now installed the Retrospect 10 and will be looking at this. /Mikael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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