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Recatalog misses file that's there!


iainh

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This is a rather sad tale, so let me explain how I've got to the point of needing to recatalog.

 

I backup to an external USB HDD and my laptop HDD is showing early signs of failure, hence I want to restore of a new bare laptop HDD.

 

I experiemented with this but had problems with the external HD (containing the backup set) not been 'seen' by the Restore minimal Windows. It turns out I'd confused the two logical partitions on on the internal HDD with the two physical HDD - the internal and external - and so repartitioned by external HDD carrying the backup set (.rdb files) crazy.gif

 

I've since recovered all the backup set files but Retrospect doesn't seem to recognise them and so if I 'Verify' for instance it needs me to point to each .rdb in turn...and with 443 of them that's going to take a long time.

 

Various catalog options have been tried and the only real option seems to be to completely rebuild the catalog from disk. However when I try this Retrospect says AA000246.rdb is missing and do I want to go ahead with the rebuild of the catalog with this missing. However, AA000246.rdb is very much there and so I'm slightly perplexed as to why it thinks otherwise.

 

I'll let is rebuild anyway but it's a shame I can't Verify a specific .rdb as a check on whether this file is being marked as missing is because it's in fact corrupt due to the repartitioning of the external drive.

 

Really I don't need a complete recatalog, I just need to 'repoint' Retrospect and tell it where all it's .rdb files are, but it seems adverse to such ideas frown.gif It's kind of annoying with Verify where it keeps asking me for each file in succession and opens (if I use the browse option) in the very directory with all 443 of them frown.gif

 

Any ideas on:

 

1. Veryfying one specific .rbd?

2. Any ideas on 'pe-pointing' without a complete catalog rebuild?

 

Thx.../Iain

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