blairl Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) I had a hard drive crash on me. Unreadable sectors. I got a new drive and restored my data via Retrospect to the drive. I named the new drive the same as the drive that crashed. My hope was to continue using the drive as a replacement for the old drive with Retrospect picking up where it left off. However, Retrospect will not recognize this new drive as the old one. My backup scripts are asking for the old drive and will not run. Is there any way to get retrospect to see this replacement drive as the old drive. Otherwise it looks like I will have to start a new backup script and forget my incremental backups for this drive. Edited October 23, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 You should change your scripts to use the new drive as the source. Retrospect is smart enough not to backup identical files again, so your "incremental" backups will work fine. (Retrospect uses the term "progressive" backup.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Retrospect uses the term "progressive" backup It does? Where? 20 odd years ago, Dantz put out a trademark/servicemark on the term "IncrementalPLUS" to describe their "Normal" backups. I don't recall "progressive" being a term used anywhere in the Mac product (perhaps it's in the Windows version?). As to the Original Poster's issue, Retrospect does not manage volumes (either physical hard drives/partitions or folders defined as subvolumes) by name; that allows the user to change the name of something without Retrospect loosing track of it. I made a feature request (long, long ago it seems) to have the ability to allow the user to assign a new volume the settings of an old, no-longer-available volume (something like Option+Drag-n-drop the grey volume icon onto another available volume icon, the cursor displays a "+" badge, a dialog is displayed "Are you sure you want to copy the settings from OldVolumeFoo to NewVolumeBar"), but I'm doubtful if anyone there remembers that. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Retrospect uses the term "progressive" backup It does? Where? Here: http://www.dantz.com/docs/techbrief_progressive_bu.pdf I can't find anything in that document that limits the use to the Windows version of Retrospect. Oh, I found a better one, a description of version 6.1 for Mac: http://www.emcinsignia.com/assets/ds_mac61bus_en.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 This 2001 press release: http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/software-services-applications-computer/6180751-1.html states: "Retrospect Backup employs progressive backups, known as IncrementalPLUS, a new-and-changed-files method of backup that provides increased efficiency and precise restores." Looks as if they use/used the two terms interchangeably. My bad. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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