dulnuan Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 Hi! I am interested in the Open File Option of Retrospect. However, I can't find any detailed documentation on the technical details how Retrospect does it's "copy-on-write" backup mechanism. Does anyone know where I can get a technical documentation of Retrospect with regards to this backup method? or could anyone explain the technical details? Thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 11, 2003 Report Share Posted August 11, 2003 Hi, Not that I have an answer but... What are you interested in knowing? More importantly, why? Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulnuan Posted August 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 Hi Nate! I am just interested in knowing how the open file backup method of Retrospect works. Just how it do its function? Thanks..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 Hi The short answer is that the open file takes an "image" of sorts of the drive at the start of the backup and then tracks changes from there. The important thing to note is that Retrospect allows writes to happen to the disk during the backup as they would normally. It just keeps tabs on what has changed. There is no caching of changes going on that could cause a data loss due to a power outage. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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