videocheez Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 I gave up on Retrospect Express HD and took the forum's advice and installed Retrospect 6.0. It worked. Lat night I did a duplicate back-up. Tonight I was attempting to set a schedule for backing up and it looks like I should have chosen the backup method which makes a *.rBf file instead of choosing the duplicate option. Please desxcribe the difference in the two back-up methods. Any help will be apprecieated. Thanks in advance, VC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dld Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 This may be of help to you. http://dantz1.conxion.com/ubbthreads/download.php?Number=32402 On p. 3 mention is made of the possibility of adding snapshots to the same Backup Set. I doubt if this feature is available in Retrospect Express 6.0.222. The screen I get is shown here and only shows one snapshop even though I know I've done more than one progressive backup to the same Backup Set. http://img210.exs.cx/img210/6497/screenhunter0013rv.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dld Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 I've been mulling over the disadvantages of using Duplicate to recover from a disaster. Let's say you've done a Duplicate of your C drive last week and you download some program that is causing a lot of problems, a program which you can't uninstall. Restoring your computer from a previous Retrospect Backup would then be a simple matter, taking a few minutes at the most. Your computer will be scanned and returned to a configuration before the installation of the offending program. Trying to restore your computer from a Duplicate would entail a lot of problems. You can't just reformat your C drive and copy your Duplicate to your internal HD. You need a working copy of Windows in order to access your Duplicate on the Maxtor. You don't know exactly which files need to be replaced. In other words, you've got yourself a whole can of worms! Copying the entire contents of your Duplicate to your C drive will not delete the files which are causing problems. The problems would be multiplied if you had to reformat your HD and reinstall Windows. What you have then is a "raw" version of Windows, with possibly a lot of drivers missing. Trying to copy your entire C drive from the Maxtor Duplicate to your HD would result in a lot of fragmented files if not a complete mess of files with directories being different in the existing C drive and your Duplicate Maxtor C drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Hi You can find some more details here: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=1061&p=2 Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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