gddutton Posted May 1, 2002 Report Share Posted May 1, 2002 Retrospect fails to delete the source files when the Move option is selected in Archive. None of the files I selected for backup were deleted after the back up completed. Is there a patch that may address this problem? I'm running Windows 2000. Below is the operations log for the Archive procedure that I ran: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Retrospect Express version 5.6.132 Launched at 4/30/2002 3:51 PM + Retrospect Driver Update, version 2.6.105 + Executing Archive Files/Folders at 4/30/2002 4:14 PM To backup set My Docs Archive Set A... - 4/30/2002 4:14:23 PM: Copying My Documents on Hpnotebook (C:) 4/30/2002 4:20:29 PM: Snapshot stored, 772 KB 4/30/2002 4:20:30 PM: Comparing My Documents on Hpnotebook (C:) Only 1,982 of 2,019 items were deleted for Move (others were locked, in use, or not found). 4/30/2002 4:26:42 PM: 1 execution errors Completed: 2019 files, 426.1 MB, with 0% compression Performance: 69.5 MB/minute (70.4 copy, 68.8 compare) Duration: 00:12:18 (00:00:03 idle/loading/preparing) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any help is appreciated. Thank you, Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddutton Posted May 1, 2002 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2002 It turns out that the delete function did work, in fact. I figured out that only the files marked with the Read Only attribute were not deleted. This left the entire directory structure intact for each Read Only file. When I reviewed my source directory and saw all (most, which looked like all at first) of the subdirectories were still there, I assumed nothing was deleted. When I drilled down into these directories, I found only one, two or a few files remaining. So, I reviewed the contents of the Archive session and quickly identified all files that were marked Read Only (by looking for the little icon of the pencil with a slash through it), and then went back to my source directory and deleted those subdirectories. Consider it clumsy new-user error. TIP FOR IMPROVEMENT: It would be nice if the operations report would list the files (and paths) that were not deleted due to being marked Read Only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parent55 Posted June 9, 2002 Report Share Posted June 9, 2002 I'm using Retrospect and experienced the same behaviour. Since I was archiving about 60 Gb (yes Gb), and close to 100,000 files, you can imagine how excited I am about having to go manually deal with all of the read-only files that were not deleted by Archive with the Move option. As some of you may know, any data files that came from a CD-ROM will always have the read-only flag set on every file. Since I archive all of our software by copying it from CD and then Backing it up to tape, we have many many many files with the read-only flag set. I would like to **STRONGLY** urge Dantz to implement an over-ride option that allows you to tell Retrospect to Move Regardless of the read-only flag. Thanks for listening, Rich 6-8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted June 10, 2002 Report Share Posted June 10, 2002 It would be good to post this in the suggestion area of the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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