Restore All Files in 8.2 fails

[hmseiden]

I have been unable in repeated attempts to get Retro 8.2 past the deleting files on destination media stage when trying to restore all files on a new disk.

 

First attempting a manual Restore- selecting a full restore manually (source, backup media, destination), I get an empty destination in a script and a failed attempt in the activity list.

 

Next attempt, since full restore didn't work, I installed an OS on the empty formatted target drive, then told Retro to restore all files, but not a full disk restore, rather all files with overwrite.

 

This works the same, however taking seemingly as long (or maybe never) deleting 18GB off the drive, I don't know what, if anything, I will wind up with. Deleting takes hours. I did install a system on the new drive, but not a current one.

 

I went by the User Manual descriptions and it doesn't work as described.

 

So it looks like there are two problems:

• Manual Restore of an entire disk does nothing.
• Building and trying to use a Restore script that can be saved, results in no files restored. It quits in the "...Deleting files" step on the the target disk.

 

[hmseiden]

2nd attempt gets to roughly the same amount of data (12.2GB) and gives the following error:

+ Restore using New Script at 12/21/10 (Activity Thread 1)

12/21/10 00:30:01 : Connected to BubbaMacPro

To volume BubbaMac 500GB on BubbaMacPro...

- 12/21/10 00:30:01 : Restoring from RS8 Daily Backup Set 7, Snapshot BubbaMacPro, 12/20/10 22:00:01

> !Trouble writing files, error -557 ( transaction already complete)

12/21/10 01:57:03 : Execution incomplete

Remaining: 982526 files, 202.1 GB

Completed: 157651 files, 12.2 GB

Performance: 236.6 MB/minute

Duration: 01:27:02 (00:34:15 idle/loading/preparing)

[Daniels]

You might want to post this in 8.x section since this section is for 6.x problems.