autometer Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 This is probably an easy question that is answered right out in the open somewhere, but I could not quickly find it. I'm also sure the answer to this is yes, but since my boss brought it up, I can not say with certainty nor can I find anything to confirm this for me. I did search the forum but could get nothing narrowed down to any less than 1,000 posts. We are running Retrospect Single Server 7.5.251, and after one of the upper executives laptops crashed, he asked me a question. "Are all hidden files backed up when performing a back up?" He wants to make sure all the hidden stuff is backed up so that when we say rebuild a "Documents and Settings/username" folder that it brings along with it all the invisible stuff that is needed to recreate their directory. He brought this up after this person's operating system went south. We could get to their Documents and Settings folder, so we asked it to display invisible files, copied everything to a server, & then Reformatted. We then copied back everything, hid the files, and all was good. The reason he asked about the invisibles is because we have to make them display so we can copy them to a different location and then copy them back. He just wants to make sure when Retrospect backs-up that it is copying everything it needs. I can not believe that it would not copy everything, but when checking backup, I don't think I saw the hidden files in backup. Maybe they are there & still hidden, but my guess would be if I can not see it, it is not there. If that's the case, why is it not backing them up & what do I have to do to make it back them up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 Quote: "Are all hidden files backed up when performing a back up?" yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autometer Posted November 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 Thank You! I thought so, but figured I better ask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 Quote: Quote: "Are all hidden files backed up when performing a back up?" yes Well, of course that's assuming that you haven't crafted a selector that would exclude them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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