butlers70 Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 After suffering a hard drive failure I did a restore from my Maxtor ext HD. Restore completed but there are a large number of files missing. These seem to be random in terms of date, alphabet etc. In many cases the folder name has restored but is empty or has very few files. After reading posts on this forum I have have tried rebuilding the catalogue both with the original Express HD 1.1 and with a trial copy of Retrospect 7.6. 7.6 gave warnings that some early *.rdb numbers are missing although as I mentioned some of the missing files are recent. My backups were always complete i.e. not incremental. Any advice on anything else I can try or are my files gone for good? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 If you have missing .rdb files, then your backup has somehow become corrupt. Either someone deleted those files manually or something at the disk/system level caused those disks to be deleted. As a result your restore will be incomplete. You can go to Files Chosen when doing the restore and see if the missing items are displayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butlers70 Posted August 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 Thanks for the response Mayoff. A mistake on my part. My ext HD filled up a year ago and I mistakenly thought that since I was doing full backups all the time, I could delete old *.rdb files. What is the correct way of dealing with a backp set that gets too large for an ext HD? I didn't see any options in Retrospect Express HD 1.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 The software will automatically remove old backup data when the disk fills. You should never manually delete stuff from the backup folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butlers70 Posted September 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 I've found that I can "undelete" the rdb files I deleted (using Recovermydata) but when I put the files back into the backupset location catalog rebuild does not work (RE does not recognise the backup set). Any help appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 An undelete will often change the first few bytes of the file, if not leave them totally corrupted. Retrospect will usually not see an undeleted file. The only true "undelete" that can give you an unchanged file is a data recovery service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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