UGORIPE Posted June 12, 2003 Report Share Posted June 12, 2003 Can someone explain the discrepancy between the amount of actual files and what Restrospect backed up? Scripted Retrospect to backup 26.89GB (16,727 items) of data on a FireWire drive. This morning the log shows this: 6/11/2003 10:28:04 PM: Comparing to archive on EZQ60GB… 6/11/2003 11:24:50 PM: Execution completed successfully. Completed: 15131 files, 9.3 GB Performance: 132.6 MB/minute (108.8 copy, 169.7 compare) Duration: 02:24:29 (00:01:27 idle/loading/preparing) How can it have completed successfully and only backed up 9.3GB and 15,131 items? It seems like all the files are there if I browse through the search results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted June 13, 2003 Report Share Posted June 13, 2003 Check for prior backups of this volume (including incomplete backups) to the same backup set. Normal backups are designed to backup only files not already in the set. Additionally, if you have duplicate files, Retrospect will only backup one instance of the unique file, yet maintain all other locations of that file in the snapshot. Was this a duplicate? If so, Retrospect is efficient enough to only make the needed changes, and not delete/write files that have not changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogappuk Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 Is there a way of turning this off ? I am backing up various version of a website and so we have duplicate files here and there. comparing the actual files and what has been backed up shows that there has bee nabout 14,000 files or folders missing !!! there must be a way of stopping retrospect skipping some files or leaving out empty folders ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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