chuzzlewit Posted December 9, 2010 Report Share Posted December 9, 2010 Hi Hopefully a straightforward answer... Running Retrospect Prof v 7, XP SP3 I've been backing up a FAT32 drive quite happily for the last couple of years. I decided it was time to migrate to NTFS so "Converted" it with no problems. Of course, now Retrospect is treating it as a new drive, and the previous (FAT32) drive is appearing as "Unavailable". Is there any way I can convince Retrospect that this is really the same source drive, even though its format is different? Appreciate any advice Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnis Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 Have you tried updating your script(s) to point to the 'new' volume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuzzlewit Posted December 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 Thanks for your reply. Yes I have updated the scripts, and they work OK, but the problem is that since Retrospect regards it as a new source drive, it backs the whole thing up again, which is exceeding the space on my backup (hard) drive. That is, I've lost the "only backup what's needed" feature. I can't see any way round other than to delete the backups made when the drive was FAT32 and restart the backups with the "new" NTFS drive. I suppose that's not the end of the world, but it does mean I lose everything that was backed up but has now deleted from the drive. Or get a bigger backup drive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnis Posted December 12, 2010 Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 That would be very annoying. Do you have either of the following Backup settings enabled? - Matching -> Match only files in same location - Security -> Backup file security information from workstations If so, does disabling either of those improve the situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuzzlewit Posted December 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 Thanks for your time. I don't have either of those options selected. I have: Under "Matching" there are 3 options and I have the first 2 selected: - Match source volumes to catalog file - Don't add duplicates to backup set - Match only files in same location Under "security" I don't have either "back up server" or "back up workstation" security information selected. I think I'll save my existing backup files off to external drive in case I ever need anything from the "FAT32 drive" backups (assume I can rebuild a catalog file), then start fom scratch. I have the feeling I'm on a hiding to nothing trying to work round this.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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