MattPoll Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Hi there. Trying to set up retrospect as part of an eval process. Retrospect is being tested to back up one server (at the moment, more to come along with clients) to a rotating array of external USB tape drives. WHen I insert the drive, I keep getting a dialog box that asks me to select te backup set member. I can point to F (my USB drive) and force it to create a new backup setup by selecting "skip" How do I keep this from happening. It only occurs the first time I add the drive. if I keep the drive attached for more than one execution before going to the next drive, I'm ok, but as soon as I switch drives the problem is back again. I'm guessing some historical info is kept here and that I need to keep the backup set on the server. Am I on the right track here? Thanks! Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekr0phage Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Hi Matt, If you're going to be rotating drives you should create a backup set for each drive. You're right that Retrospect tracks what data is stored where, this is so it can run comparisons on what is already backed up and determine what data is needed for normal (incremental) backups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPoll Posted September 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 Ok, so I should setup a script for each device and then when I change drives run the new script? Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekr0phage Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 Matt, Yes, or you can put all destinations on one script and schedule from there. If you're going to rotate drives on a constant schedule it will make scheduling in Retrospect much more easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonnyr Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Foster, I have a similar situation where I rotate a couple of disks using a hot plug in arrangement. I've created a backup set for each and schedule each on alternating period (remembering to swap the disk between these runs in my responsibility still ). Retrospect, however, keeps complaining that the missing disk is missing and pops up a dialog every time this happens. Is there a way I can avoid it and just get retrospect to ignore this? Alternatively, is there a way to check the presence of a particular drive and use the appropriate backup set against it? or can this only by done by a script outside Retrospect? Cheers, Bonny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekr0phage Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hi Bonny, What OS/Retrospect version are you using? You can check for media presence by verifying a script in Automate>Validate Scripts. Are you removing the disks while Retrospect is open? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonnyr Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 FOster, Sorry, I should have specified: I 'm running Retrospect 7 on WinXP Pro SP2. The backups are performed on my computer alone (no networked clients/servers as such). I'm aware of the Automate:Validate action but I want Retrospect to do this and simply ignore any backup disks which are not mounted. As I'm rotating two disks onto the same Hot Plug In SATA controller, there's bound to be one valid and one invalid backup script at any one time, but that's ok. Also, if by 'retrospect is running while changing disks' you mean the retrorun service, then yes, but the main Retrospect application typically is not running when the swap happens. Does this shed more light and points to something I'm doing? Cheers, Bonny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekr0phage Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Hi Bonny, Yes that clears up the situation a little bit. It sounds like you're running two schedules all the time so that Retrospect will back up to whatever disk is connected, is that right? If that's the case, Retrospect will always complain when it doesn't find a needed backup set. However, you can limit this by setting a media request time out in Configure>Preferences>Media Request. This will tell Retrospect to forget about a scheduled execution after a set amount of time when the backup media is not present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonnyr Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Foster, Thanks for this, this is exactly the situation I'm having. If I set the timeout value and Retrospect will forget the schedule, will it reeanable it when the media is connected again? Cheers, Bonny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekr0phage Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Hi Bonny, The timeout option only causes a particular scheduled instance to fail. When the drive is unavailable, that scheduled execution will fail after the set amount of time, the script will run again the next time it is scheduled to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonnyr Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Foster, Thanks, I'll give it a go. Cheers, Bonny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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