mneuliep Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 I just purchased 7 Pro to work with a new USB hard drive and have done a couple of wizard driven backups. I read through the manual last night and saw the information on grooming options. I wanted to set this up but when I do a Configure Backup Sets, there are no grooming options on the Properties Options tab. Did I have to set up grooming when the backup sets were created or is there a way to enable it now that they exist? Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonaldL Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Grooming only works for disk backup sets. When you get properties on the backup set, make sure it says it's a disk backup set and not a file backup set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mneuliep Posted August 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 It is indeed marked as a disk backup set, but still no grooming options. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelenko Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 Grooming options: Backup sets -> Choose disk backup set -> Properties -> Members tab -> Properties button on bottom left of dialog screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mneuliep Posted August 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 Thanks for the info. On that tab I see the "Use at most" options. But I don't see any way to view or change the "Ask for a new disk"/"Keep only the last n backups"/"Keep according to Retrospect's defined policy" setting that I made when I created the backup set. The Retrospect User's Guide on page 235 says that these options can be changed at any time on the Options tab so that's why I was looking there. Also, article 7941 in the Knowledgebase with the title "Disk Backup Set Grooming with Retrospect 7" shows a screen shot of the backup set Options tab with check boxes for these options. But I don't see them when I pull up this dialog. Does anybody else see them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 Hi Have you enabled encryption on the backup set? If so, all grooming options are disabled. Thanks Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mneuliep Posted August 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 Aha! I have enabled encryption. Thanks very much. I wish the doc had mentioned this restriction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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