Evaluating Retrospect And Have Questions

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Am evaluating Retrospect for use in a small network. Have submitted the following question through the tech support web site, but no one replies, so I thought I'd ask here:

 

1) If possible, how do i configure it to do hourly incrementals? 2) For the hourly incrementals, if I want to keep n versions of a given file before overwriting, how do I configure it? Thanks

 

also - the client crashes on my test machine after each backup. I have foolishly not written down the exact failure text, but will ammend later if it happens again. Anyone seen this (I know - too little info...)? (WinXP SP3, Client version 7.7.114)

[Lennart_T]

1) If possible, how do i configure it to do hourly incrementals? 2) For the hourly incrementals, if I want to keep n versions of a given file before overwriting, how do I configure it? Thanks

You should create a "disk" backup set.

Then you should create a script that backs up the client(s) to that backup set.

Create schedules for that script, that schedules a "Normal" backup every hour. ("Normal" is what you calls "incremental".) Maybe it's easiest to have one scheduler that runs each day Mon-Fri at 7 am, another Mon-Fri 8 am and so on until the working day is covered.

You should set up "Grooming" to keep "n" versions. (I think you do that when you create the backup set).

Finally, schedule a "Groom" script either in the middle of each night, or on Saturdays, depending on how large disk you have.