judyrud Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I set up Retrospect to run an automatic weekly backup. After returning from a vacation, instead of the short (may I use commonsense terms?) backup, it appeared to start from scratch and ran all night. What happened? I tried using Retrospect "Help" from the menu, but nothing appears? Why not? What I would dearly love is to be able to create a backup that matched my Hard Drive (I'm backing up to an external hard drive), so I could find individual files; I find it nearly impossible to see what (or if) I've backed up under the automatic system. I think this might work with "Duplicate" instead of "Backup." If so, should I continue the automatic backup and do a duplicate as well (I think I have enough space)? What I'm tempted to do is just drag the folders I want to back up to the external hard drive icon; would this work? If I want to create more space on my computer, could I drag just my "Movies" folder (for instance) to the external drive and then delete it from my computer's hard drive? How risky would this be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgreen Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 You need to get a backup strategy. I just bought Joe Kissel's "Take Control of Backing Up" and it was GREAT! All your questions are answere suscinctly there complete with a Retrospect primer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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