ggirao Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Hello, Last weekend I did a migration to a new bigger disk of 3 of local shares. As I have daily backups and these shares have many TB of data, I don't want to start a new backup. I already tried once to change the source on Retrospect, but it identifies as a new one and tries to start all over again? Is there a way to turn around? TY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Are the local shares the source or (a member of) the destination? What is a "local share"? From Retrospect's view, a disk either a local disk or a mounted share from another server. What else is changed apart from a disk? Was the old and new disks formatted using (exactly) the same version of Mac OS? What backup options have you set? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Are the local shares the source or (a member of) the destination? I have the sources from a remote server locally attached (to that server) by Fibre Channel What is a "local share"? From Retrospect's view, a disk either a local disk or a mounted share from another server. Its a retrospect client share What else is changed apart from a disk? Was the old and new disks formatted using (exactly) the same version of Mac OS? Yes they are, I only change de name (and size) of the attached disk (the AFP Shares names remain) What backup options have you set? Attached Images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 If I understand it correctly you have: One Retrospect Server. Let's call it "A". One Retrospect Client that acts as a fileserver. Let's call it B. You have added new storage to B and copied all files from the old storage drive to the new storage drive. How did you copy the data from the old disk to the new? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Correct. The daily backups are running on A I Created a script from retrospect but the server and the client are the same ( B ), I used it for speed improvement (attached images) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 It would probably have been better if you ran a specialist copy program on "B". SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner are two programs worth considering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 I Know CCC, but I cannot justify to my superiors why we need (another) replication sw. We bought full server version of retrospect... Well, let's recycle Media Set... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 FYI I Was wrong. the backup is running with the differences only. I think the trick is the (un)tick "Use attribute modification date when matching" For your sanity, don't tick this option ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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