stringman Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Hello, I have Retrospect Express HD 2.5.112 for XP and am using the Iomega 500GB external disk drive. When I did the initial backup, the s/w did a full backup. It has since done 95 incremental backups. I would like to start over w/ a new full backup. As I understand it, if a disk were to fail it would require 1 full restore and 95 incremental restores to get back to were I am now. This would also include files deleted over the last year that are included in one of the 95 incrementals, so I would still have a good amount of maintenance to do after I complete all 95 restores. So here's my question: Is it possible to do a full backup, replacing the initial backup and all incrementals? So far it looks like I have to manually delete all data on the Iomega, which will probably mess up the configuration files causing me to remove all vestiges of the s/w and reinstall. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Retrospect would never require 95 restores. That would be silly. One restore from the latest backup will give you everything you had on that date. It will NOT include any files deleted before the most recent backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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