drife Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 I had an older version of retrospect and did a full backup with windows xp as a OS.....recently my computer died and I purchased a new one with Vista....I downloaded the new Retrospect trial and went to restore from my earlier backup before the crash and the new software doesn't recognize the old backup .rdb files....and help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Have you done a catalog rebuild? If not, you need to rebuild it from all backup media in the set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drife Posted May 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 How does one do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 It is one of the most heavily documented features, I am surprised you have not seen it. It is in the User's Guide, It is in the Help, it is showed in the online videos and it is in the tutorials. This is a tutorial: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=8350&p=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drife Posted May 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drife Posted May 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 How long does recatalog normally take? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 It depends on how much data. Everyone is different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drife Posted May 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 On the activity monitor under the executing tab the file names have stopped changing and it seems to have stopped on just one file name but the execution is still running....is this normal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drife Posted May 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 This is the error message I am receiving. Trouble reading: "1-Backup Set A" (624192), error -102 (trouble communicating) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Retrospect either had trouble reading data from the disk, due to a corrupt data file or you are having a device communication error. Try a different USB port, change USB cables. You will need to start the rebuild over again. Under Vista, make sure you have 7.5.387 of Retrospect. If the rebuilds always stop at the same point, then you have corruption to the backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drife Posted May 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 I have 7.5.508 - just downloaded it today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 That will work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRIS Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 Catalog rebuilds can take a while, I started a rebuild on a 440GB disk based backup set and it's calculated to take about 23 hours... or 300MB/minute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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