rxlaw Posted December 14, 2009 Report Share Posted December 14, 2009 Gee, this is special. Ran my first backup with 7.7, using the same script and backup set that I've been using since 7.6. For some reason, it's looking like Retrospect thinks this is the FIRST backup, and it's doing a full backup against all my 175GB. Totally ignoring files that have ALREADY been backed up in the set. Needless to say, backing up to a firewire drive, this is taking 12 hours. EMC/Danz/Iomega needs to make it very clear that previous versions' backup sets will NOT be respected, and provide a workaround to this untenable situation. I seem to recall this happening in 7.5 to 7.6 upgrades, and it looks like I'll lose all my previous sessions and snapshots (once the currently running backup runs out of room on the target drive), or I'll be lucky and just have Restrospect vomit and ask for another backup destination. I guess I have to get a whole new drive to start again in order to preserve my 7.6 sets. Has anyone else seen this issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 14, 2009 Report Share Posted December 14, 2009 A change was made between version 7.6 and 7.7 to how Retrospect performs matching under some configurations. As a result some users will find that all files need to be copied again. Once that backup completes, the matching will work the way you would expect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted December 14, 2009 Report Share Posted December 14, 2009 Robin... What changes were made? Is it similar to the Mac version that now uses snapshot data for searches instead of session data? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 14, 2009 Report Share Posted December 14, 2009 It is some type of change that basically involves using file path's more then file ID's for matching. Has nothing to do with session/snapshot data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxlaw Posted December 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 Thanks, Robin. But it would sure be nice if this was documented. I have spent two days untangling my backup media as a result of this. Essentially, it orphans the existing backup set on the media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozbear Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 RxLaw, Happened to me too. Oz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 But it would sure be nice if this was documented. Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:40:57 -0700From: "Ullman, Eric" Subject: Where the @#%& is my Retrospect 8 User's Guide? To: EMC Retro-Talk ... The Retrospect team no longer has a dedicated staff tech writer. ... Cheers, Eric -- Eric Ullman Director, Product Management EMC Retrospect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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