jlgroff Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 I am a brand new user trying to back up to an external Maxtor 1-touch 200 Gig Firewire drive using the latest version and driver of Retrospect 6. (Panther, G5) I changed the preferences to allow use of the FW drive as a removeable disc as instructed, Retrospect seems to see the drive fine but when I try to use the immediate backup (as a test run) it doesn't back anything up as it sees the disc as "busy" , the disc is formated as Mac OS Extended and I also had retrospect erase the disc. I see no option to make the disc "unbusy"! Very frustrating. There is nothing on the disc except whatever files Retrospect put on it - so I don't see why it would be busy. I can't find anything related to this in the documentation. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 >I changed the preferences to allow use of the FW drive as a removeable disc as instructed, Instructed where? Do you have a need to use this external drive as a member of a Rmovable Backup Set (ie; do you intend to span your backups over multiple drives)? Any reason you don't simply create a File Backup Set on the drive and write to that, without changing the default preference in Retrospect concerning using FW drives as removable? >Retrospect seems to see the drive fine - Sees it where? - What Retrospect window(s) are you referring to? >but when I try to use the immediate backup (as a test run) it doesn't back anything up as it sees the disc as "busy" , - What is the exact message you're getting? - What are the exact steps you take? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlgroff Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 thanks for your help - I figured out the problem. I needed to change to a File Backup Set. This type will meet my needs just fine. later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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