brokenwhole Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 (edited) Hi, I'm trying to do a restore from a disk backup. The backup was made to an external hard-drive from a different PC. I copied the catalog file, and Retrospect can read it fine - it shows me the snapshots, lets me pick files to restore. But when everything is ready to go, it comes up with a dialog saying ""please select the backup set member". First, why is it asking me for that when I already gave it the catalog? Anyway, I browse down into the location of the backup sets, but I really don't know what I'm looking for, and, in any case, there's no OK button on the dialog. Please see attachment showing the "open" button greyed out when I browse down to the directory containing the rdb files. Thanks, Keith P.s. I'm positive it's not a permissions/security issue, or a file corruption problem. Edited February 9, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauricev Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 What do you mean to an external hard drive "from a different PC"? Do you mean the backup made on a computer different from where the screenshots were taken? Retrospect at least in the past would get hopelessly confused if the backup sets moved from one drive to another. You might need to rebuild the catalog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokenwhole Posted February 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Well, I made the backup on one PC (actually the same PC as I'm using now but a different hard-drive - I'm restaging my laptop with a new hard-drive). I copied the backup set to my new hard-drive, and copied the catalog. It can obviously read the catalog, otherwise it wouldn't be able to let me choose snapshots and directories from which to restore. Do you think I actually do need to recatalog on the new drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauricev Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 My recollection was that Retrospect had gotten confused in this situation. It was as if it hard codes where the backup set is, although that was for subsequent backups. You might move already existing catalog aside and see what a recatalog does. The other option is to put the backup set in the same path as it was when the backup took place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokenwhole Posted March 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Hi, this is driving me crazy. I was delayed in continuing to move to my new hard disk. Did a final back up on old disk, copied the catalogs, and they get recognized by Retrospect. The backup sets ARE in exactly the same location because they're on a removable drive. Thanks,Keith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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