slapidus Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Here are to excerpts from the Retrospect manual that I find interesting and somewhat disappointing. Could you please comment and offer recommendations? P. 58 Restoring an Entire Volume NOTE: To prevent the operating system from crashing, the Restore entire volume method does not delete the active Windows system …” Ed. Note: This means if Windows becomes corrupt or develops a problem, you cannot use Restore Volume and instead must do a Disaster Recovery. P. 138 Disaster Recovery There are three situations in which you should create a new Disaster Recovery CD or image: * If you do a recycle backup to the Backup Set you used to prepare for Disaster Recovery. Ed. Note: In order to keep Backup Sets from becoming inordinately large, you should periodically recycle them. For example, I recycle mine weekly. According to the manual, I should recreate by Disaster Recovery disk every week. This is a significant inconvenience. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaikow Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 One cannot restore an OS over the running OS. There's no need to create a new DR CD just because you do a recylced backup. You do need to create a new DR CD IF you change the drive on which the OS in which Retrospect is installed lives. Just last month, I had to do a DR. I used a DR CD that I created in Nov 2003 using Retrospeect in the OS on the J drive. The backup set has been recycled many times since then, as well as additional RDUs having been installed. Indeed, I even restored from a different backup set than the one requested by the dR CD. You do need to recreare te DR CD if a particular RDU affects your system. In my case, I have not done so, and apparently I do not need to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapidus Posted February 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Your reply is excellent and I thank you for it. I recommend that the User's Guide be updated to reflect your comments/experience, particularly page 138 under Disaster Recovery. Thank you. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaikow Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Quote: Your reply is excellent and I thank you for it. I recommend that the User's Guide be updated to reflect your comments/experience, particularly page 138 under Disaster Recovery. Thank you. Steve The user's guide is awful, needs a total rewrite, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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