CONTENT UNRECOGNISED?

[pablo]

So,

 

Data originally backed up on new mac (OS 9.x) with Retro. V4.3 to a lacie d2 firewire 200GB (IEEE 1394!!)

 

 

When tryng to restore from the Firewire drive, using a catlog burned on cd to another volume, it tells me to "insert" the drive named "x" to proceed but....the drive is mounted on the desktop and i can see the retrospect data on the drive. The restore window has "content unrecognised" under the drives name and says it is not there when it clearly is!!

 

I get error 1,-309 if i try to copy the data files using the finder copy (i.e alt-drag). I have had succes duplicating some of the retrospect files to my 2nd firedrive (which is only 160GB and so cant fit all files.) Although when i do this, even when i re-catalog, i cannot add a snapshot from the original catalog- it tells me the catlog file maybe damaged/ interrupted while backing up etc...

 

Basically i cant get retrospect to read the firewire drive even tho sum1 a few days before me did the same and had no probs. Assuming that I dont live under a giant magnet is that data corrupted and unusabe by retrospect or is it pilot error? I have tried many things many times and still retrospect says the content is unrecognised (retrospect V.5 and v4.3) and to insert the drive..I cannot get it to re-catalog either saying the drive "cant be used".

 

Any ideas??

 

[AmyJ]

When backing up to hard drive with Retrospect, the correct type of backup set is a File backup set. That you have a seperate catalog file indicates that you may have used a Disk Backup set. Under OS 9, some disk formatting utilities incorrectly set the "removable" bit on some drives. Some users with external FW drives incorrectly used Retrospect to access a fixed platter external drive as if it were a removable device (with media). When hard drives are backed up to incorrectly a removable drive, you may not have the ability to restore.

 

You can try moving the hard drive to another computer, which may better deal with the format of the disk. Another possibility is to use a removable disk drive, such as a Jaz or Zip drive, name the disk with the exact name as the hard drive (which is now a backup set member), such as 1-Backup Set A, copy the Retrospect Data files to the disk and see if Retrospect will recognize the disk properly.

 

For a tutorial on the correct way to backup to hard drive with the Macintosh product, please see:

 

http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=27501

 

A file backup set will only take up as much space as needed. The rest of the hard drive will be fully usuable as storage space for other items. A disk backup set takes over the entire drive.