Roxie2401 Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 I'm confused (and a novice at Retropsect). If I do "progressive" backups to a Backup Set, should I be able to "find" all versions of a particular file; those created at an earlier date vs the current version done with the latest backup? If so, can someone tell me how to do that? I keep trying "Restore/Find Files" but all I seem to get is the current version. I thought that was the whole purpose of incremental backups or, am I wrong and all Retrospect does is copy "changed" files and overwrite the previous version? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 http://video.emcinsignia.com/retrospect/immediate_restore/1.%20Immediate%20Restore%20part%201.wmv http://video.emcinsignia.com/retrospect/immediate_restore/2.%20Immediate%20Restore%20part%202.wmv http://video.emcinsignia.com/retrospect/immediate_restore/3.%20Immediate%20Restore%20Part%203.wmv http://video.emcinsignia.com/retrospect/immediate_restore/4.%20Find%20Files.wmv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxie2401 Posted July 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Thanks. If a file is deleted from the hard drive, does it remain in the Backup Set for retrieval or does Retrospect delete it during the next progressive run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 17, 2008 Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 A normal backup operation will keep the files within the backup until you either do a recycle backup or perform a grooming operation to purge old data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hapbt Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 could you please clarify something for me? when we had full backups, we'd do a 'full' backup/copy once a week and incrementals after that. now, we have everything backing up 'progressively' to the disk-disk-tape server, when, for example, file ABC.TXT is 'groomed' out of the backup set, will it be replaced the next time an incremental backup is run? i.e. will there always be a base/full set of files in the backup set, even if it is incremental/progressive and grooms periodically? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 Grooming only removes older version of files that exist in the backup. You will always have the most recent X number of current versions of the file, while the oldest version are removed since they are not current. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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