lapimate Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 A desirable aspect of maintaining the catalog on the external (or NAS) drive is that it maintains the catalog on a device independent of the backed-up C: drive. However EMC Insignia's recommendation is to maintain the catalog on the C: drive itself. I understand that this recommendation may sadly be necessary in the light of flaky communication and non-robust file operations in Windows or the application; this recommendation seems to somewhat defeat the purpose. I know the catalog can be rebuilt from the backup set, but this seems to be a time-consuming and sometimes fraught process, just when one is in a vulnerable recovery situation. So this is a request that Retrospect's catalog operations be made more robust to make storage of the catalog in a non-default location (eg network drive) properly reliable. Perhaps as a selectable option for those of us willing to sacrifice some speed for reliability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 Why not just create a script to duplicate the catalog every day so you have a copy if you need it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapimate Posted November 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Thank you for "Duplicate" suggestion - will implement that; seems it likely will decrease potential for problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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