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Backing up duplicated source volume


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I have migrated all of my documents from one almost full volume to a new (larger) volume using retrospect's "Immediate Duplicate" function. I currently back up both to a dedicated backup hard-drive and a tape backup set.

 

My question is, how can I now convince retrospect to consider the new (duplicated) volume and files as identical to the original source volume, so it doesn't try to backup ALL the files into my existing backup sets?

 

When I "preview" it isn't matching any of the documents from the new volume to those existing in the backup set catalogs.

 

Any help appreciated!

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I am using retrospect 7.5.387.

Its running on XP sp2 using NTFS on both drives.

There were some errors -1 and -1101 about security info when I did the duplication.

 

I am telling retrospect to run with the following options:

 

- Immediate backup

- Normal backup

- thorough verification

- data compression

- match source volume to catalog file

- don't add duplicates to backup set

- match only files in same location is NOT checked

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I am telling retrospect to run with the following options:

 

- match source volume to catalog file

- don't add duplicates to backup set

- match only files in same location is NOT checked

 


When you do a preview of an immediate backup, do you see a diamond in front of the file names? That would indicate a match. See pages 242 and 243 of the Retrospect 7.5 user's guide.

 

I suspect, if you are not seeing a diamond in front of the file names, that "match source volume to catalog file" is causing the re-backup of duplicates. Perhaps the creation or modify dates are different as a result of how you made the duplicate?

 

Russ

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Well, then your approach of recycle may be the only hope. But it should work unless a recent bug has been introduced. I was hoping that unchecking this and then rechecking might cause things to be initialized properly. You might want to compare the creation/modification dates and sizes on a few representative files because there's no hope of a match if those differ.

 

Russ

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