Can I lock my backup drive but still let Retrospect backup to it?

[Guest]

I'm using Mac OS X Panther with Maxtor OneTouch II and the latest Retrospect Express.

 

I have made two partitions, one for a frequent backup of my PowerBook's internal HDD, but the other is acting as a normal external secondary HDD.

They're both showing up as drives on my desktop, but I am curious as to whether I can lock the backup drive -just for added safety so I don't accidentally overwrite anything onto it- but still allow Retrospect to access it to write the backup.

 

Also, am I correct in thinking if I select, "File" rather than "Removable" for the backup set, Retrospect won't begin writing onto my secondary partition once the other has filled up?

[natew]

Hi

 

How were you intending to lock the drive? Retrospect runs as root so it should still be able to write if you remove write permissions for your user.

 

You are correct. File backup sets cannot span multiple disks.

 

Thanks

nate