jonwales Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 So I needed more space for backups (which have been working fine till now). Consequentially I formatted a 15TB RAID box to use for backups from now on. I copied all of the retrospect backups over to this volume, but no matter what I try I can't get it to work. I can successfully locate the catalog files from the Locate function, but they still say that they contain media with the old path. I have tried editing the media, that won't work. I try to rebuild the catalog, but what happens when I point the rebuild to the media is that it says it contains 0 files, and basically doesn't do a rebuild at all. This is starting to be seriously frustrating. You cannot seriously be about to tell me that backups cannot be moved and re-pointed....... Help Robin please!!!!! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 There may be two issues here: Consequentially I formatted a 15TB RAID box to use for backups from now on. I copied all of the retrospect backups over to this volume, but no matter what I try I can't get it to work. I suspect that you may be running into the following bug: Retrospect cannot handle volumes >= 8 TB You might want to repartition that RAID to have two 7.5 TB volumes until this bug is fixed or worked around. It's not clear whether it's a Retrospect bug or an OS bug. Also, regarding: I can successfully locate the catalog files from the Locate function, but they still say that they contain media with the old path. What type of media set? File? Disk? You cannot seriously be about to tell me that backups cannot be moved and re-pointed....... At the risk of beating a dead horse, a manual would be useful... Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 So, when you edit the Media Set and select the new drive, it does *not* refresh the path? Are you getting an error message when you do this? Did you copy the "Retrospect" folder (containing the members) to the new drive and it's at the same location (ie, the root level) as the other drive? If you can't Edit the member to pick the drive -- what if you rename the volume of the RAID to the name of the *old* drive and restart the engine? I've done that before and it's worked without doing anything else... (I can't speak to that 8TB bug -- my RAID is not that large...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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