davis Posted March 18, 2002 Report Share Posted March 18, 2002 I am using retrospect express to back up to a 20 GB LaCie hard drive. Retrospect allocated the entire hard drive to backup data sets 01 - 010 but I only have a small amount of data so there are eight 1.99 GB data set files that are and probably always will be unused. I would like to be able to use my drive for other purposes but I cannot delete any of these data set files because they are locked. Is there a way to free up the drive for other purposes since I don't need that much backup space? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 25, 2002 Report Share Posted March 25, 2002 Absolutely! Because of the way your drive was formatted, and how the operating system sees it, Retrospect defaulted to creating a removable disk backup set, and thus reserved all the available space on the drive. The best way to back up to a hard drive is to use a file backup set. Not only is this more reliable, but it will write data to a single file, and the rest of the space on your drive can be used for other purposes. For details on how to set this up, please see our tutorials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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