httyuwma Posted February 14, 2008 Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 I was under the impression that Retrospect will not make multiple copies of the same file. Is this true? How about the same file on different clients within the same set? How about between sets? And last how does Retrospect know it's the same file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Quote: I was under the impression that Retrospect will not make multiple copies of the same file. Is this true? it depends on your settings. Quote: How about the same file on different clients within the same set? it depends on your settings. Quote: How about between sets? it depends on your settings. Quote: And last how does Retrospect know it's the same file? it depends on your settings. What version are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
httyuwma Posted February 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Can you give me a pointer to the settings for this? We are running 7.5.387 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Quote: Can you give me a pointer to the settings for this? We are running 7.5.387 see pages 242 and 243 of the Retrospect 7.5 user's guide (matching). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
httyuwma Posted February 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Ok, Why could it not use checksum or another method so I don't have so many copies of same files on different machines with different dates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 That's a question you will have to ask the designers of the program. It is what it is. Perhaps you might want to submit a feature request for a future version of the program. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
httyuwma Posted February 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Does anyone here know of a solution that will not copy same files based on content of the file, not creation/modify date? also one that uses Apache for user restores? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRIS Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 funnily enough the manual says on page 242: "The Windows file matching criteria are name, size, creation dat, and modify date." add to that "and its path". This means simply renaming a high level folder containing, say, 100GB of data that has already been backed up to a backup set, will thus cause an additional 100GB of data to be added to that backup set the next time it runs as a Normal backup. I guess matching to avoid this would take very long... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Path is only included if you turn on the bottom matching criteria. Path is not a factor by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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