rolfvaessen Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 Hi I hope someone can help me how to open a backed up folder to see what it contains. Folders look like this:'AAooooooo2.rdb Retrospect Disk back up Set 614,408 KB' and when I tried to open or explore it, it brings up the Retrospect window with options to back up but not how to open or view what is already on the Maxtor external drive. TIA Rolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David777 Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 Hello Aussie. What version of Retrospect are you using? Thanks, RetroRespect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolfvaessen Posted May 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Retrospect 6.0 thanks RetroRespect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David777 Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Hello Below is a link that will direct you to the tutorial on how to browse the contents of the backup set. http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=1042&p=2 Thanks, RetroRespect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolfvaessen Posted June 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 I have another problem. Every Friday the back up is set. It never asks me to connect to the external Hard drive. Also, should I use the one touch button instead? TIA Much obliged Aussiebattler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David777 Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 You don't need the one touch button unless you prefer to use it. If you browse your external drive do you see a retrospect folder? Or do you see a retrospect folder on your C: Thanks, RetroRespect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolfvaessen Posted June 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 Sorry for being so long in answering. Yes I see a retrospect folder on both, external and internal Harddrives. Isn't the one touch simpler or is it unreliable? Thanks, Aussiebattler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David777 Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 So it looks like you are storing backups on your internal drive. How much free space do you have left on your C:, if it is almost full from storing your backups, retrospect will ask you to select another disk that has free space to store your backups. You may need to configure retrospect to not backup to your C:. Thanks, RetroRespect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolfvaessen Posted June 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 How do you do that? Why does nobody recommend using the one touch button? It used up 10 GIGs on my C: and I have about 16 GIGs left free space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David777 Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 Hello Go to configure>backupsets, highlight your backup, select properties, click on the members tab, highlight the member on local disk C:, select properties, put a check mark in the box that says this member is lost or damaged, clcik ok. Makesure in the members tab you have the maxtor drive selected as a member, if you don't you will have to select add and choose the maxtor drive. Then if you choose you can delete the backup from you C:, by going to C: and deleting the retrospect folder. -RetroRespect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David777 Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 Hello In reference to the one touch button-some people reccomend using it some people don't, it's about your personal preference if you desire to use it or not. Some people don't want to set it up because they are afraid it might accidently gets pushed when there not ready to do a backup(maybe paranoid a little)and they don't want to take that chance, some people love to to use it for it's convenience. If you need help configuring your maxtor onetouch button you can see the link below and navigate to external drive answers link, or you can call maxtor 800 262 9867. https://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/home.php -RetroRespect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolfvaessen Posted June 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Thanks heaps for that advice Retrospect. I stick with the one button and hope for the best. Cheers Aussiebattler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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