villagetech Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 We are currently running Retrospect 6.1 and LTO 2 - old, I know. So we're upgrading to LTO 5 and have bought Retrospect 8. Obviously, for continuity's sake, we'd like to be able to use Retrospect 8 to reference and see all the database information from Retrospect 6. Is this possible and if so, how? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 In order to access the Retro 6 data, you will need to rebuild the catalogs in Retro 8/9, which of course would mean running all your LTO 2 tapes from end to end. This is needed because the Retro 8/9 catalogs are in a format that is, to use an old Retrospect phrase, "too different." Since you cannot read LTO 2 tapes in an LTO 5 drive anyway, you may prefer to do what we did and keep your entire old setup ready for restores from the previous backup data, so as to avoid the time-consuming catalog rebuilds. By the way, how did you obtain Retro 8? The current shipping version is Retro 9.0.1, which offers significant improvements over Retro 8.2, and is what I would recommend. (Avoid Retro 9.0.0, which, while offering some bug fixes, introduced a few new ones on its own.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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