danhardt Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 I'm running Retrospect 6.1.126 on a 20" iMac running OS 10.4.5. I wiped a partition on an external drive (which had been successfully used for backups), then backed up to that partition. After Retrospect completed a 4.2 GB backup, I looked at the partition but found nothing--it was still clean. I found a backup file and a catalog file on my hard drive. Why didn't the backup go to the external drive? What did I do wrong? In the past, the backups went to the proper external drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Do you have more than one disk with the same name? Are you sure you used the correct drive when you createwd the Backup Set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danhardt Posted April 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 All the disks have different names---Take Control of Backups taught me well on that issue. As far as I can tell, I followed the same procedure I've always used, so I should have sent it to the proper drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Quote: Why didn't the backup go to the external drive? It sounds as if you saved the File Backup Set to the wrong place when you originally created it. If the Backup Set pair (foo and foo.cat) on the internal drive contain the 4.2 GB you were expecting, you can copy those files to your intended external drive, then delete them from the internal drive. Then in Retrospect, Forget the old Backup Set and use the "more" button to locate the new one (or double click the Backulp Set on the new drive and it will add itself to the Backup Set list). Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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