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restore from disk backup, says "needs media"


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Retro 10.1, Mac OS X 10.6.8, backup set is on a SATA attached drive. Ran the Restore wizard, "select files or folders", selected a backup set to restore, selected a destination (on another volume), Retro says "needs media...". When I click the button to locate the media and click "add" (it's saying it can't find backup set 1-BigBak, so I point it to that folder), nothing happens, it still won't restore.

 

I have gone through these exact steps on another server and not had this problem, so it seems like another random bug.

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I've had the same thing happen to me, OS 10.8.4. In my case, the backup set I was restoring from was also on a hard drive, but USB3 and FileVault-encrypted. The data on the drive had been copied from a different (unencrypted) drive, to which it had been originally backed up. But I maintained the same structure on the new drive, and gave the drive itself the same name, so i was surprised I had to use "Locate" at all. "Locate" silently failed whether I pointed just to the drive or to the specific folder in which the backup resided.

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