Was First Retrospect Pro, v.7 Backup Successful?

[LeDonaldo]

 

This question comes from a technoignoramus who's brand new to backing up.

 

Was the backup successful?

 

I backed-up from C: to E:---an external drive (3.5" in an enclosure).

 

In My Computer, clicking on E: shows two icons and one folder. The folder is Retrospect, the icons are Retrospect Catalog, which is 13,357 KB, and Backup Set A, which is 13, 910, 443 KB. (The C: drive has c.14 gigs used.)

 

Dbl-clkg on Catalog opens Retrospect. The Backup Set A Properties dialog Summary tab shows 6.7 gigs used to 36,444 files and a Catalog File, E:\Backup Set A.rbc.

Dbl-clkg on the Snapshots tab, I see two icons, C: and E:. Dbl-clkg on C: opens what looks like a tree that shows the entire contents of C:. *But* dbl-clkg on E: opens a window that shows only files suc as AUTOEXEC.BAT, BOOT.INI, etc., plus RECYCLER, retrospect, and System Volume Information.

 

In Retrospect's left pane, clkg on Backup Reports, opens a dialog. At the top it says 0 of 0 successful events shown, 0 of 0 unsuccessful events shown. *But* clkg on Operations Log does show a successful Immediate Backup to Backup Set A, 6.6 gigs.

 

Do I have a complete backup of C:? (By complete I mean files and applications.)

 

Thanks for reading all this;-)

[natew]

Hi,

 

The backup was probably successful. If your operations log shows no errors you are all set. You can click look in the backup set properties to verify the contents of the backup. Just click on the sessions tab and click browse.

 

Thanks

Nate

[LeDonaldo]

natew,

 

Thanks for replying. (I'd seen some of your other posts and was hoping that you'd reply.)

 

I checked E:\

 

*The Operations Log shows no errors.

 

* Clicking on the Sessions tab>BROWSE results in two entries: SCSIO_VOL 1(E:), and IBM_PRELOAD (C:)

 

Opening the SCSIO... entry shows BOOT.INI, BOOTSECT.DOS, & two folders: RECYCLER and Volume Information. Opening the IBM... entry shows what looks like a complete list of all the applications and files on my C: drive.

 

Looks good to me, but I'm easily fooled;-)

 

DavidH