jky94 Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 Hi all: I'm a brand-new user of Retrospect Express for the Mac, and I am having the toughest time figuring out how to use it for a simple backup! I'm currently running OS 9.2 (I have X installed also, but my Epson printer doesn't talk to OS X--no driver updates--so I have to stay in 9 most of the time), and just got Retrospect Express 5.0.263 bundled with Norton SystemWorks 2.0. I want to do a simple backup of my files from my Mac G3-450 (8GB worth of material) onto a 60GB FireWire hard drive. There are files on the FireWire hard drive already which I do NOT want erased. I ran Retrospect Express for the first time last night, configuring all the settings for Immediate Backup as shown by the PDF User Guide, but whenever I executed the backup file it would pop up a window that instructed me to eject the FireWire drive. Is this because I've set the destination backup set type as "Removable Media"? Should I set it to "File" instead? I just want a backup of my files from the G3 on the FireWire drive, that's all. There are still 29 GB free space on the hard drive, which should be plenty of room for my 8GB of data from the G3. I'm new at this, so I hope this message makes sense. Any tips from you would be MUCH appreciated! Jeannie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 The following tutorial will walk you through hard drive backup: http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=27501 Please keep in mind that Retrospect running while booted in OS 9 cannot properly backup OS X. For full compatibility you should do your backups in OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jky94 Posted October 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 Thank you, AmyC! That worked out very well!!! Jeannie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSmoke Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 With the latest 5.0.238 release, is it possible to now back up OS X 10.2.2 volumes properly when running Retrospect Express 5.0.238 booted from OS 9.2.2? I ask since I've run backups of my OS X boot volume while booted from that volume, but sometimes verification comes back with a few problem files. This seems to be caused by background processes modifying files while the backup is running, i,.e. they're backed-up, then a background process changes them, and verification later flags them since they now differ from the backup. I have no other applications running but Retrospect during the backup, but OS X's UNIX underpinning mean there are quite a few background processes always running. I have an OS 9.2.2 partition on an external hard drive and I'd like to be able to boot from that and run Retrospect Express 5.0.238 from there to back up the OS X boot volume without having to have the boot volume "live." I know I could also create another OS X partition on my firewire drive and backup my primary OS X boot volume by running Retrospect from the former, but it would be less work if RE 5.0.238 now does solid backups of OS X boot volumes when run from OS 9. If not now, is this something Dantz is looking into?? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 With the latest 5.0.238 release, is it possible to now back up OS X 10.2.2 volumes properly when running Retrospect Express 5.0.238 booted from OS 9.2.2? No, this is still not possible. This functionality will not be added in the future. Some of the core structural changes in OS X are not readable by OS 9 systems (inode permissions and hard links to name a few). We will always require backups of the Classic OS from within OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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