dvrem Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Everything I've found on this topic is very vague. Can Retrospect 8 can back up my filevault home folder while I am logged in? Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvrem Posted December 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Anybody? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Everything I've found on this topic is very vague. Can Retrospect 8 can back up my filevault home folder while I am logged in? Ironically, your question is too vague to attempt an answer. Retrospect 8 is a multi-function package consisting of Engine, Console and optional Clients. You'll have to describe how you want to use the software if you want answers. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvrem Posted December 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Ironically, your question is too vague to attempt an answer. Retrospect 8 is a multi-function package consisting of Engine, Console and optional Clients. You'll have to describe how you want to use the software if you want answers. Dave I was trying to keep it simple to encourage helpful suggestions. I don't know how to otherwise describe a very basic situation... I've been backing up my home folder on a single machine using Retrospect 8 for several months. I'd like to now enable file vault on the home folder and back it up with Retrospect 8. Is it possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riposter Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Everything I've found on this topic is very vague. Can Retrospect 8 can back up my filevault home folder while I am logged in? Ironically, your question is too vague to attempt an answer. Retrospect 8 is a multi-function package consisting of Engine, Console and optional Clients. You'll have to describe how you want to use the software if you want answers. Dave Really Dave? Ok...how's this? Can Retro8 server backup a Mac client (10.5 Leopard/10.6 Snow Leopard) that has a user account that's encrypted with FileVault? Obviously this wouldn't be very useful or even possible unless the user account is logged in, but it would be nice to have a proactive backup that could grab a backup if/when the user is connected to the network and logged in. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghoffman Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 I backup the FileVaulted home folder on my laptop. It is just a matter of backing up the content of the special diskimage volume that appears when FileVault is enabled for a home folder and you are logged in. You do have to add this volume to the configuration of things being backed up. I am doing this under Retrospect v6.1 and Mac OS X Leopard with the backup server on an iMac. I expect it to work equally well under Retrospect 8 and/or Snow Leopard. The FileVault diskimage appears like any other volume - as long as you are logged in. My recommendation is to just go ahead and try backing up a filevault. You might want to create a test account on the client machine, then enable FileVault on that account and try backing up the home folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 Just make sure you are _not_ also backing up the .sparseimage bundle. It won't work as something to Restore. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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