dengrey Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 I have a backup set of 5 DVD's. I made the mistake of not backing up the catalog on other media. I needed to restore my entire "USERS" on my startup disk. I am using version 6.1.230 on a G4 running the latest version of Tiger. My backups are incremental. When I started to recatalog, the first DVD required 15 minutes before asking for #2. I am still working on #2 DVD (out of 5) after more than 48 hours. The recataloged file size so far is 400MB and (of course) growing. The Retrospect progress box says that I have completed almost 2 million files amounting to 750 gigs(!!), whatever that means. The #1 DVD represented the original backup. The #2 DVD and part of #3 DVD represents the second backup. There remain 32 more incremental backups. My "USERS" contained a moderate amount of music files, podcasts and photos. I don't know what the size was. I need some help. IS THIS NORMAL? How long should I expect this recatalog to take? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 What is displayed in the operations log? If Retrospect says 750GB, I suspect it is having trouble reading data from one of your disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dengrey Posted November 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 You're right. I get this error message over and over-- "Trouble reading: (DVD name) (4029 and various other similar numbers), error 206 (drive reported a failure: dirty heads)" Then: "Backup set format inconsistency (4 at 8639488 and various other similar numbers)" I am screwed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 Sounds like a bad disk. I would start again, but skip this disk...marking it as missing when requested to insert it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dengrey Posted November 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 Thank you. I'll try that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 Perhaps you might be able to read that DVD on another drive - perhaps the laser in the one you have is getting weak. And you might try cleaning the DVD. Otherwise, the files on that DVD member are lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dengrey Posted November 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 I was able to complete the restore quickly without the offending DVD disk. I lost some files, but none were all that important, I think. Most of my REALLY important files were on another partition and backed up on a separate external drive. Thanks again for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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