als25 Posted September 12, 2005 Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 Hi, My main hard drive that backs up our network has run out of space, we have duplicated an exact copy onto a spare hard drive, which we need to put into storage. What is the best way to do this, keep the old hard drive but starting it afresh from the last backup point eg. have a virtually empty hard drive to start over without filling up the whole hard drive again? Thanks Alan p.s. Just getting used to Retrospect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 Hi Are you using a "disk" backup set? What version of Retrospect are you using? To clarify - you wan't to delete the old data on your disk to free up space correct? Thanks Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
als25 Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 I made a copy of the original drive as it was full- then I wanted to keep the various backup sets eg from computers 1-5, the copy is now in storage and we want to use the old drive. My company is a small software company and we have no need for huge hard drive copies, original was 80GB and the replacement is 80GB. Obviously if we backup again the drive will fill immediately. What I need to know is how to go about starting over- RECYCLE is what I have been told,what the company wants is to be able to go into storage if there is a system failure etc and have the various drives and be able to back up incrementally.eg our email server currently has 20 GB of data, what we want to be able to do is start up the new drive and save only the recent changes eg 1GB has been added since the backup filled the drive so we would only want on the new drive this 1 gb of data. Do I reformat the drive and then just run the scriopts? Or do I use a function such as recycle, which we have tried to do and it throws up error messages that the disk is full-obvious!I am just trying to think it through logically and it is version 5.6.127 an older version!Thanks for any help, I am getting confused here! Thanks Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
als25 Posted September 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 p.s. Now that I have copied the hard drive as of last weeks date, I now want to simply schedule a backup to start from the previous point eg no old info just new info. I have continually told it to recycle is that right?but it says the hard drive is full, which it is.How do I go about telling it to write over it ( format?)So that the catalogs are kept but filled with only new pertinent info, thus reusing the drive if possible, or do I need to delete it?Sorry if I sound confused as I really am! Many Thanks Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted September 14, 2005 Report Share Posted September 14, 2005 Hi With Retrospect 5.x your only option is to recycle the backup sets. This will empty all the data from your backup set and start backing up everything again from scratch. There a bunch of ways to do this but the easiest is to go to configure-> backup sets, open the backup set and go to the options tab. Under media action choose recycle. After that all your backups will run as normal. No need to change any other settings. Thanks Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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