hermie Posted July 5, 2009 Report Share Posted July 5, 2009 Hi all, Well, I still haven't run a backup on PPC. The problem I come across is file selection. OK, so I made a rule more or less copying exceptions from a Retrospect 6.1 selectors screenshot. The rule is there, but i'm unable to check if it really works prior to hitting start for a backup. So I wanted to try manual file selection. I select the disk to backup and then the checkmark to select all. Works. However, then it's not possible to deselect the files and folders I don't want. Going the other way around, meaning select nothing and then everything I want to backup, is a sheer impossible task. I hope someone understands what I'm trying to say and can shed some light on it. Am I missing something? Have fun, Hermie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Are you using the 8.0 or 8.1 version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermie Posted July 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Hi Robin, I'm using the latest version, 8.1 Have fun, Hermie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 I logged bug 22687 to help track this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermie Posted July 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Aha, so it is supposed to work like I thought. If it does it would make selecting and then saving the results a lot easier. Thank you very much for keeping track of our issues. For good order I installed Retrospect 8.1 on a PPC Dual G4 1.42 with 2 GB RAM. Extra internal HD, small 30 GB external LaCie FW400 (not in use for backups anymore) and a sometimes mounted 1 TB external FW800 with 2 partitions, from which I plan to use one partition for backups besides the second internal. Have fun, Hermie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Can you be more specific about the exact steps you use to see this problem. We have not been able to reproduce the failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 We have not been able to reproduce the failure. Robin, I thought this was discussed during Beta and was a known issue. Steps: - Backup Assistant - Create a Backup - Select Sources -> Root level of local volume - Click Browse - From drop-down sheet, again select root level of volume - Click Disclosure Triangle to reveal all subdirectories in volume; note all are checked also - Attempt to de-select any item from list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermie Posted July 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 It's what Dave says. BTW I did sign on for the Beta testing but could never take part because... yes, you guessed it... Intel only. Hermie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Robin, I thought this was discussed during Beta and was a known issue. Manual Selection broken in Beta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermie Posted July 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 Hi again, OK, so I ran a backup through the Assistant and in the popup selected the rule I made monkeying my exceptions from Retrospect 6. Compared with 6 it took ages counting file, matching, creating Snapshot and then comparing or whatever. Suddenly it said completed and I thought that can't be right. Well, it said no files needed to be copied, believe it or not. It's the first backup from this disk, so about 80 Gig needs to be copied. Log says copied files 0. Am I missing something? I suppose tomorow I'll delete the lot and start again. I'm quite puzzled at the moment... Have fun, Hermie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermie Posted July 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 Tried again, modified script and got it to work. It's running at the moment. I must say that my first impression isn't very good though, looks like throughput speed is about six times as slow compared with Retrospect 6 on my machine, which would more or less make this version unusable for me. Can't have it take this long to backup just about 80 Gig... Have fun, Hermie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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