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Why might you combine catalog and data files?


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Actually, what was new in Retrospect 5.x (and continued in 6.x) is the ability to seperate a File Backup Set into individual catalog and data files.

 

Before that, File Backup Sets (and before, that, File Storage Sets) were always combined into a single file. But Mac OS (both 5/6/7/8/9 and X) limited how large such a single file could grow, and breaking the Retrospet information into two files gets around that file system limit.

 

Most OS X users will probably have hundreds of thousands of files in their Backup Sets, and Retrospect will seperate any File Backup Set when necessary.

 

I'd just leave this as it is.

 

Dave

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