sdphillips Posted November 23, 2002 Report Share Posted November 23, 2002 I have Retrospect Express 5.6.132 running on a Compaq Presario 2800T laptop, backing up another computer on my home network to a Maxtor one touch Personal Stroage 5000 80g external harddive. I am using file backup for this from a script. When I try to prepare for disaster recovery for this backup using the wizard, I see the backup set and snapshot I want, but when I select it I get the message, "Sorry, that snapshot can't start a Windows Computer. Please select a snapshot of a Windows startup volume and try again." The hard drive I backed up is the only one on the computer, so it is a startup volume. I have backed it up again, but the message stays the same. Has anyone had this problem or have ideas on a solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdphillips Posted November 23, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2002 Realized I left off an important piece of info. The laptop I am running retrospect on runs Windows XP; the PC whose harddrive I am backing up runs Windows ME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronaldE Posted November 23, 2002 Report Share Posted November 23, 2002 I have had that same experience with three different backups that I have made. From reading through the tutorials and browsing through the posts here I have come to the conclusion that you have to upgrade to Version six to have con trol over the snapshot. I may be totally wrong about this but I'll be watching to see if Amy or someone will say something different. ronaldE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdphillips Posted November 23, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2002 More additional information - I just created a new backup set to CR-RW disks - still through the home network between the 2 machines - and have the same problem. So it has nothing to do with using an external hard disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZakB Posted November 25, 2002 Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 Retrospect Express can only make a Disaster Recovery image of the local machine (i.e. the machine running the backup). Dantz currently does not make a version of Retrospect that has the functionality to make a Disaster Recovery disk of a Client machine. Please note: The registry is not backed up when a volume is mapped over the network. The only way to properly backup a machine over the network (registry, application and data) is to use the Retrospect Client software. Retrospect Express does not support the client software. I suggest that you upgrade to the Professional version for that functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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