gtallan Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 I was trying to check into how Retrospect handles FileVault images on Mac OS clients. The few references I could find referred to a backup option not to back up the filevault sparse images, but these were all relating to Retrospect 6.x. I can't find any such option in Multi-Server 7.5. Does it exist, or am I looking in the wrong place? Does this version of Retrospect have any special handling for FileVault images? Thanks, Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvanden Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Retrospect 7.5 doesn't have any special handling for Mac OS X FileVault. It won't back it up correctly unless you follow the directions on page 189 of the Retrospect 7.5 User's Guide PDF. I advise my Mac users to use encrypted disk images instead of FileVault. http://www.macworld.com/2006/10/secrets/decmobilemac/index.php Hope this helps, Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtallan Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Thanks, that is very helpful. I did eventually find the reference in the manual (and am embarrassed that I hadn't done so before posting). It does seem surprising that this version of Retrospect is missing the feature of skipping backup of sparse images. It would be nice if they would add it to a future version (if one ever happens). Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Quote: It does seem surprising that this version of Retrospect is missing the feature of skipping backup of sparse images. It would be nice if they would add it to a future version (if one ever happens). Graham, Not that it helps you any, but the Retrospect Macintosh version does have a preference (per backup script) to skip backup of sparse images. So it's a known issue. Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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