Backuping up to external hard drive

[dahauss]

I have an XSERV and am trying to use retrospect to bsckup to a firewire hard drvie. It is a 300GB hard drive and was backing up fine for the past few months. All of sudden no matter if I back up one directory or a bunch, it tells me the hard drive is full and to select another disk to the remaining backup. Lat night I tried just doing a recycle backup of a folder and it was only 49GB total. When I looked at it this morning, it told me about 24GB needed to still be backed up and to select another disk.

 

I am running the lasted update to 6.1

 

Thanks for any help...

 

-- Dave

[Mayoff]

How much free space does the finder report you have on the disk? What file system was used when you formatted the disk?

[dahauss]

I used OSX to format with the journaled file system and I have 298GB free space before I do any backups...

 

 

[CallMeDave]

Lesson Time:

 

- The correct name of the Apple computer model is "XServe."

 

- Retrospect backups up to Backup Sets. Data is stored either within the Backup Set itself (for File Backup Sets) or in Members of the Backup Set (for all other types)

 

- By default, Retrospect can only use external hard drives as the location to store File Backup Sets.

 

- A user must take active steps to adjust the default preference settings to use a hard drive as a Removable Device, to use that hard drive as a member (or as multiple members) of a Removable Disk Backup Set.

 

- If Retrospect is prompting you for a new disk, then you are likely using a Removable Disk Backup Set (and have, as noted above, taken the affirmative steps necessary to configure the program that way).

 

- The most likely reason Retrospect prompted you for a new disk is because the Member disk it had been writing to became full.

 

Take a look at

Configure->Backup Sets->YourBackupSet->Members

and tell us what you see.

 

 

Dave