Ikmar Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 After I upgraded from 7.0 to 7.6 I had to edit my scripts and recreate my subvolumes for Drive C: because the old "local disk C:" isn't "online" but the new one is. I read in other places in the forum that I should "forget" my old drive, but why does it do that? Why can't 7.6 realize the two drives are really the same? Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Are you sure it's the same drive? (Not just a similar drive with the same name and drive letter.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Or a drive that has been renamed or reformatted or resized? Retrospect seems to think that something has changed (volume ID? size? name?) and that it's not the same drive. Having to re-add the subvolumes and having the old drive marked as offline are consistent with this. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikmar Posted September 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 C'mon guys. I hope you're joking. I'm backing up my local disk C: drive - how many C: drives can you have on one machine? And No the drive has not been changed, renamed, reformatted, resized or re-anything. 7.0 worked fine and listed only one C: drive. I installed 7.6 which imported the 7.0 settings and now I have 2 drives of the same name - and the top one is not available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 C'mon guys. I hope you're joking. I'm backing up my local disk C: drive - how many C: drives can you have on one machine? No, I wasn't joking. Something that is being reported to Retrospect when it looks at the specifics for the volume seems to make it think that it's a different volume. Retrospect tries very hard not to overwrite your past backups and to get the sources straight even if the volume becomes mounted as a different drive. And No the drive has not been changed, renamed, reformatted, resized or re-anything. Ok. But something seems to have changed as far as Retrospect can tell. Easiest thing at this point might be just to delete the unavailable drive and move on. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikmar Posted September 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Okay, I'll 'forget' the old drive, but it just seems weird -- and I've seen other posts in the forums with the same thing, so I wondered if a specific answer had been discovered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Welcome to Retrospect My only other thought would be that your C: drive is raided, and something isn't right, so it's seeing it as two entities. Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikmar Posted September 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Yes it is RAIDed, but the management software shows no drive/configuration errors. And when I tried to forget the greyed C: it wanted to forget the active C: subfolders instead of its own greyed subfolders. So I just left it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 If you can not browse a disk from Configure>Volumes then you need to forget that volume in order to clear out Retrospect. I have never seen active subvolumes appear below a drive letter that cold not be browsed. Unless you have 100's of subvolumes, I would suggest you forget the back disk and do any needed reconfiguring of subvolumes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikmar Posted September 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 The subvolumes don't show as active in the drive that can't be browsed, but when I forget that same drive it tries to forget both the C: drives (because it really is the same drive). So, to forget the one C: drive I'll have to reset all the subvolumes (again) and scripts. Since my incremental backup will become a full backup again, I'll wait until it's full backup day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Forgetting and adding subvolumes does not cause data to be recopied. If the files have not changed, then they will not get copied over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Forgetting and adding subvolumes does not cause data to be recopied. If the files have not changed, then they will not get copied over again. ...unless you specifically told Retrospect to do so (by unchecking the "Don't copy duplicate files..." checkbox). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikmar Posted September 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 (edited) Okay. But when I put 7.6 onto my server - and edited my scripts to look at the 'new' subvolumes. My incremental backup did a full backup that night. And yes, the settings of the script are correct -- I checked them. I'm just assuming it'll do the same thing again. Edited September 16, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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