steve-news Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Hi All, I've been able to make a successful backup of my G4 (os 9.1) on my external firewire HD, including setting up a run document to run the backup, shut off the machine. Step 1 = check. Here's the dumb question: I other backup systems, I could view my external hard drive's contents in the finder...double click, browse around, etc. I can't do this w/Retrospect because of the backup set, etc...how can I simply see everything on my external hard drive that's been bundled up in the backup set? Is there a quick and easy way to see all of the files that are on the volume...not just what was backed up last, etc? Thanks in Advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Go to Configure>backup Sets. You will find a Backup Set menu at the top of the screen with a View Contents option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-news Posted July 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 When I go here, I see two snapshots - one is just files backed up today (ie altered since last backup). Should there be these two snapshots? Won't I have to look at both to see all of the contents? I'm confused why there isn't just one snapshot (ie current volume cotents) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 This shows sessions not snapshots. Each session shows the files physically copied at that date and time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-news Posted July 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 That makes sense; however, the only way to see ~everything~ thats bundled up would be to go through the restore function then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Yes, that is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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