Sunny Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 I am new at using Retrospect and I need help in setting up the 5 day Script to backup on one of two Maxtor - USB external drives rotated daily. Both Maxtor 120 are NTFS formated with identical volume names. I created the 5 day script using the EasyScript with one Maxtor120 drive and also ran the 1st backup set during the setup. That worked fine. The script was scheduled to run at 10:00pm. Since, I already had a backup performed during the setup, I swapped the Maxtor drive and waited for the backup at 10:00 pm. Guess what, the backup did not work, the problem seems to be the destination of the backup set and or the . Can anyone tell me how I can correct this problem. Also, I want to make multiple backup sets of each of the 5 days sets on both the Maxtor120 (swaping them daily, Backup size is only 5Gb compressed). I greatly appreciate all the help you can give me. Thank you, Sunny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Hi Rather than using 5 sets (things will get confusing) try setting your backup to run with one set on each drive. for example create a mon/wed/fri set on one drive and a tues/thrus set on the other. Retrospect will not run the backup unless the right backup set is available. That is a good reason to keep the set rotation as simple as possible. 5 day is doable also but you would want a total of 5 sets between the two drives. A seperate set for each day Mon, wed, fri on the first drive, Thurs and Tues on the other. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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