igavin Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 It would be really good to be able to browse and tick a box to select/deselect files to be included or excluded when creating selectors. Even better would be a system like Backup Exec's - by default any new folders are included unless they are explicitly excluded. I find Retrospect to be a really excellent product, but I find the whole system of creating volumes and selectors time consuming and frustrating. Selectors can be really useful, but when I have installed Retrospect on a customer site I find it takes too much time to trim the backup using volumes and selectors. Regards, Ian Gavin igavin@ionet.ie IONET Ltd. (Retrospect re-seller) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpouzet Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Yes, I agree, the checkbox-driven file selecting feature would be a simple, but great feature in some problematic cases. It's available in other products than EMC's I used over the time, but it's realy missing here in Retrospect. For example, on a multi-server backup, backing-up everything, but on one server excluding a few things (huge temporary files or directory, as generated for example in some anti-spam solutions), i.e. including a whole volume in the backup but without one or a few file(s) or sub-directory(ies). The only way to do it with Retrospect is, I think (not tested) using those regex-like filters (or "selectors" or "include/exclude", I don't remember), and enter fullpath-like regex in inclusions or exclusions filters. It would be quiet a bit complicated, but should work. The only problem is : such filters are applied to the whole backup task/script, not only on one volume or on client... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Quote: The only problem is : such filters are applied to the whole backup task/script, not only on one volume or on client... I think you are wrong on this. "Name (Backup Client)" can be one of the conditions in a selector, and "Name (Volume)" can also be a condition in a selector. It's not pretty, but it can be done. We do it on our Retrospect Mac Workgroup Server, and I checked, and that feature is available on the Windows version, too. At least in the Retrospect 6.5 Users Guide (see page 207), so I assume it's in the later versions, too. Retrospect 6.5 Users Guide Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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