dtilbor Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 How does grooming affect a system recovery/restore? Documentation says it intelligently eliminates "unneeded" older files . . . but what about system data? What if I need to do an emergency recovery of my system from a groomed backup? Will my system boot properly with all files, drivers, apps, etc.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 Grooming never removes a file needed to do a full system restore. It always keeps everything on your disk at the time of the last X# of backups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtilbor Posted June 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxlaw Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Better test that, bro. I can't get a valid bare metal restore out of Retrospect to save my life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxlaw Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 (edited) Here's another issue I'm having. After REBUILDING my system from scratch because Retrospect could not restore it, I set up my backups to run into the same (old) backup sets that existed on my two external drives (each is separately updated via its own backup script each night). The data drive D: has about 300GB on it, most of which has not changed since the system crash. However, now Retrospect is attempting to back up everything on that drive (and the "new" C: drive), resulting in backup sessions that fail because the external drives can't take another full backup. In other words, the incremental backup seems unable to reconcile that is has current snapshots of D: from before. My only option is to delete the entire backup, which means my ability to retrieve data files going back to 2006 is lost. Oh, I've groomed the backup sets multiple time, including "forgetting" several snapshots in the hope this would free enough space on the external drives. Suggestions? Thanks, Bob. Edited June 25, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRIS Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Retrospect appears sensitive to very minor details. For example changing the VOLUME LABEL on a hard disk results in retrospect identifying it as a new volume. Presumably client rebuilds also make it treat the new client and its disks as totally new. Hence it erroneously thinks it all needs to be backed up in full. Why cross-client matching doesn't help in this situation beats me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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