witenoize Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Retrospect should be seeing the files as identical already. What operating system is this? What file system is used on the 2 hard disks? Did you get any errors during the duplicate? What version of Retrospect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 What do you have set for the "Matching Options"? Is "Match source volumes to Catalog File" checked? Is "Don't add duplicates to Backup Set" checked? Is "Match only files in same location" checked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witenoize Posted January 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Quote: 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witenoize Posted January 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 I am not seeing diamonds. I guess I will recycle backup the backup drive and start a new tape backup set. But generally, this SHOULD work? Is there a better workflow to upgrade a source disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Again, before you do this, have you tried unchecking "match source volume to catalog file" and then doing a preview to see if the diamonds appear (which is what you want to happen)? Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witenoize Posted January 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 yes, I tried (which deselects all matching features) and it definitely doesn't find any matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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