Adding disks to backup sets

[rkilpa]

Ok, I am new here and glad to find this forum. Hope to get some help to a question.

 

 

 

I created a backup set on CD-R of my "Documents and Settings" folder. My question is... If I want to schedule an auto Incremental backup, to say backup once a week, which disk from my Backup Set should be left in my CD drive for the next Incremental backup? In other words, the Backup Set I created required me to be at the computer and feed disks as prompted till the backup was complete. Now that it is complete and I want to backup the files that are added or changed during the week to that backup set, how do I go about it?

 

 

 

I have read the users manual but it doesn't really make sense to me.

[AmyJ]

Providing you are using the same backup set, the next backup will pickup where the last one left off.

 

 

 

If your initial backup used Backup Set A, which grew to 5 CD's, you'd put 5-Backup Set A in the drive for the incremental backup.

 

 

 

Under Automate > Scripts, you can set up an unattended operation. When selecting your destination backup set, but sure to use the same set as your original backup.

[rkilpa]

Thanks Amy,

 

 

 

That seemed the only logical thing to me, but I was thinking I would have to maybe also supply the first disk in the backup set like I did when I created it the first time. Is that just done the first time to complete the catalog or something?

 

 

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Randall

[AmyJ]

Yes, Retrospect will always ask for all members spanned in a particular session. For example, if your first backup used members 1 through 3, Retrospect would require a second pass on those three members to verify that the data was copied correctly. If your next incremental backup started on member 3 and spanned to member 4, Retrospect would require a second pass to verify member 3 and then member 4 after the copy was complete.

[rkilpa]

Sooooo, then, Using CD's would not work for an UNATTENDED Incremental back. Live and Learn !