pls2000 Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 (edited) I've just upgraded a hard drive by using Paragon Partition Manager to copy the partitions to a larger drive, then setting the same drive letters to the new partitions. After this, Retrospect shows both my old F partition and the new one as separate drives. I know from having been here before that I can update my backup scripts to use the new drive, but every file will be backed up again. I would prefer to not break backup history and start over with all new backups. Is there a way to tell Retrospect the the new F drive is really the same as the old? If not, this is something you might address in the next version. Thanks. Edited April 23, 2011 by pls2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 Retrospect does the right thing: It isn't the same drive. It just happens to have the same contents and the same drive letter. You don't say if the new drive is the source or the destination of your backups or what kind of backup set you are using. Please specify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pls2000 Posted April 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 The new drive is the source. I am backing up to tape. ++PLS Retrospect does the right thing: It isn't the same drive. It just happens to have the same contents and the same drive letter. You don't say if the new drive is the source or the destination of your backups or what kind of backup set you are using. Please specify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted April 29, 2011 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 The new drive is the source. I am backing up to tape. OK. Unless you (actively!) reuse/erase the tapes, all the history and all your backups will be retained. Does both the old anf new drives have the same file system? Usually, that would be NTFS. Then the files on the new drive should not be backed up again, unless you have manually (and actively) specified Retrospect to do so. In order to forget the old drive (so it doesn't show up in the volumes listing) do this: Exit Retrospect. Disconnect/turn off the new F: drive. Launch Retrospect. Go in to Volumes and "Forget" both F: drives. (/You may get a warning that it is the source in one or more scripts, but that's OK.) Exit Retrospect. Connect/turn on the new F: drive. Launch Retrospect. You will now have only the new F: drive listed. Add it to the scripts as desired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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