deadpcagain Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 Hello all, I have just purchased a 200gb Maxtor One Touch with bundled Retrospect 6.0 and wish to use them for full backups on Laptop and PC. I am a little unsure as to the best settings in R 6, I did a full Backup on this machine last night, which took about 2 hours and the drive reached a max of 430mb/min transfer rate. I had 14 executable errors at the end but unfortunately was too tired to check them and just closed down. Anyway im rambling, can anyone suggest the best routine for a complete safety proceedure on a daily or 5 times weekly basis ? I remember when my hard drive crashed in the laptop and I was devastated at losing months of work. Regards M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldoose Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 Most (all?) of the Maxtor USB/Firewire drives come formatted as FAT32. If you never intend to use Windows 98 with this drive, you'd be wise to format it as NTFS. This will allow you to backup volumes larger than 4 GB. Otherwise I'd guess it would be good practice to shut down as many processes as possible during the backup, including any optional ones in your system tray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadpcagain Posted March 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Thanks Lyn, I have formatted the drive as NTFS using administration control panel, unfortunately R6 no longer sees it as a backup device ? Ayn ideas Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadpcagain Posted March 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Also, just found out that the Maxtor one touch script is missing from Retrospect scripts ??? Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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