sevans666 Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Hi, I am new to the product and would like to set-up straight forward full backup's of selected folders on a number of PC's to a central NAS. Each PC has 7.5 installed and I would like to backup to a named folder on the NAS for each PC and then delete the individual backup when older than the 10th backup say. I initially started with incremental and this went well, then I tried to alter to a full backup and it keeps asking for a new folder to backup to etc when running overnight and then fails. Any help (on this very straight forward issue I'm sure) greatly appreciated! Kind Regards Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Most people do not install Retrospect 7.5 on each computer on the network (because you must buy a copy of Retrospect for each of those computers). Most people install Retrospect on a central computer and then install the Retrospect Client software on each computer on the network, allowing Retrospect to pull the data from each system. To reset the backup, make sure you are doing a recycle backup and not a "new backup set" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevans666 Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Hi Robin Thank you for the reply and advice. I have done as you suggested but the backup is getting written over each day rather than keeping each backup. Can you advise? Kind Regards Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 If you want to keep each backup, then you need to do a normal backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevans666 Posted November 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 Hi Robin I am now back at my initial start point of incremantal backup's and not a full backup each day. Can you advise? Kind Regards Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevans666 Posted November 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Hi Just a quick e-mail to see if anyone has any suggestions to keep a full backup each day? Kind Regards Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Use a different backup set each day of the week and always do a full backup. You can also turn off matching, forcing a normal backup to recopy every file every day (which is a waste of backup media space). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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