bhvr Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 We have our Retrospect Catalogs directory at SystemHD and this disk is getting full. We want to change the location of the Retrospect Catalogs directory to another HD in the server(interal). How do you do this? I was looking around but not quite sure if I have to rebuild a new catalog set, please illustrate me. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 The catalog for any backup set other than a File backup set can be moved to any mountable volume. You simply have to tell Retrospect where it's now located. The simplest way is probably just to navigate to the catalog in Finder and double-click on it. Alternatively, you can go to Configure> Backup Sets> Configure and highlight the desired backup set. Since the catalog will no longer be at the expected location, Retrospect will prompt you to navigate to it. For a File backup set, you would need to move both the data file and the catalog file together to the same new folder. You'd use one of the same methods above to tell Retrospect how to find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhvr Posted April 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 You mean that if I go to the new location and double-click the backup set catalog file Retrospect will know where is the new Location? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 You mean that if I go to the new location and double-click the backup set catalog file Retrospect will know where is the new Location? Well, assuming that you moved (copied) the catalog files there first, yes. It's my experience, though, that you have to tell Retropect where each catalog is (click on each one); there doesn't seem to be a global way to retarget all of them. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhvr Posted April 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 ok, I see. So, I have a Weekly Catalog [112] that I already moved to the new location. This means that next week I will have Weekly Catalog [113] at the new directory location NOT at the old one? The new catalog file will be created at the new location? there nothing more I have to tell Retrospect? thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Yep, if it is done by the scheduler in response to a "New Media" event when the previous backup was done to a catalog in the new location. It's worked that way for us ever since Retrospect 2.0 (back in Mac OS 7 days on an ASIP server, now retired). Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhvr Posted April 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 thanks Mr. rhwalker! I will check the results this weekend. thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crome197 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 You can move the catalog file, however your going to have to rebuild the catalog if you ever decide to groom your data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 your going to have to rebuild the catalog if you ever decide to groom your data. The Macintosh version of Retrospect does not have data grooming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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