dhwagner Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 How do I put together a selector that will exclude Retrospect Catalog files? There is little point in backing up catalog files to the main backup set. I prefer to use a special backup set that just backs up the catalog files. If my disk fails, then I can re-create the catalog for this special set from a rather small backup set (usually 1 CD-RW), which is a lot faster than scanning a whole tape. I have tried many methods, some based on Unix paths, but nothing works. Unfortunately, the documentaion for selectors is somewhat lacking. What I have now is a selector (for my main backups) that excludes: Enclosing folder path name contains `Users/admin/Retrospect Folder'. My catalog files are in /Users/admin/Retrospect Folder/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 There is a selector pre-defined called Retrospect Files. You can copy and edit it, or you can use the selector within a new selector as the exclude criteria. Exclude: Selector is selected by Retrospect Files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhwagner Posted April 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Excluding all Retrospect files might be a good idea, but it is not what I wanted. I found something interesting. Experimenting with the Find utility in the backup set browser, I discovered that path name contains Users/admin/Retrospect did not find any files. However path name contains admin/Retrospect did find the folder "/Users/admin/Retrospect Folder" (quote marks added for clarity). So did: path name contains Documents/admin/Retrospect and path name contains "admin/Retrospect Folder". I have the partition that otherwise would be mounted as /Volumes/Documents, mounted via fstab (using UUID) on /Users. The partition name "Documents" does not show up in any Terminal/shell command results that I can think of, such as "pwd". But Retrospect prefers to identify the path exclusively as Documents/admin/Retrospect Folder. This appears to be a translation of the MacOS 9 path "Documents:admin:Retrospect Folder:". I hope the next major revision of Retrospect will support paths as they are seen in a shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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