ComputerX Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hi all, Is it possible to merge the disks in a disk set? I have a old server with 6 250GB drives in a Disk set. I need to put another drive into the box but all the slots for drives are full. I even have a couple drives bolted to the case itself. If I could merge .rdb files onto a smaller number of larger drives I could pull those little 250GB disks and put in another drive or two. Is this possible? Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Have you considered a backup set "transfer" from the current set into a new set? Perhaps you might be able to work something using that approach. Another approach might be to take a big volume, partition it into a few smaller volumes, use each smaller (partitioned) volume as a "disk". Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerX Posted January 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 I would like to do a transfer but I don't have 1.5TB of staging space. I hadn't thought of partitioning. That would be ugly but it would work. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 You could always borrow a tape drive, transfer out to a tape backup set, then roll back in. But ugly may be the only way to go. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerX Posted January 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Alas, I do not have a tape grave to borrow. At least not one that will hold that kind of data. I was hoping someone would say: Just create a directory structure like -----> SetName ----------> 1-SetName ----------> 2-SetName ----------> 3-SetName ----------> etc. and Retrospect will find them all. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Quote: Alas, I do not have a tape grave to borrow. At least not one that will hold that kind of data. Interesting Freudian slip. I've had a few tape drives that killed tapes, too. It doesn't take a big drive, just lots of tapes: Quote: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 83. ISBN 0-13-349945-6. Time to go ugly. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerX Posted February 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Quote: Time to go ugly. I really don't like ugly. It just occured to me that when you rebuild a catalog from disks it asks you to browse to find missing files (I think, I haven't rebuilt a catalog in a couple weeks.) Could I dump several of the drives into one drive then rebuild the catalog? Anyone from Dantz want to weigh in? Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Quote: It just occured to me that when you rebuild a catalog from disks it asks you to browse to find missing files (I think, I haven't rebuilt a catalog in a couple weeks.) Could I dump several of the drives into one drive then rebuild the catalog? Your original problem statement asked how to merge the disk members into a single-member backup set, not how to build a catalog. Note also that Retrospect is not looking for files when it is trying to rebuild a multi-member disk backup set; it is looking for volumes. If, however you have a (necessarily single-member) file backup set, then it does prompt you for that single file. Again, I think that you are going to have to go ugly. When Retrospect is looking for a disk member of a certain name, it's looking for a volume of that name, not a file. The model for multi-member disk backup sets is the same as multi-member tape backup sets. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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