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Maxtor One Touch to Duplicate Multiple Hard Drives?


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I've done some research and understand some of the restrictions of duplicate, however....

 

Here's what I want to do, and before I look into other backup software I'd like to give Dantz a shot at providing an answer or product upgrade that does this:

 

I purchased the Maxtor One Touch 200M with Retrospect Express 6.0. I want to do a DUPLICATE of specific folders that I select on multiple hard drives when I hit the OneTouch button.

 

Simple as pie. Would be super easy to do and give me (and others) exactly what they need. We don't want BACKUP, we don't want mutiple scripts. We just want to hit the button and have it DUPLICATE multiple folders on multiple drives to the Maxtor.

 

If 6.5 or some other version supports this, please provide alink to upgrade pricing and info.

 

Thanks!

 

- Bob

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I had retrospect set up to do exactly that until last week, but I have since completely re setup my OS and hard drives. I'm now trying to get it to work that way again, and I can't figure out how to do it. It won't let me select multiple drives. I was using Jaguar when I first had it working, and I'm now on Panther, but I wouldn't think that would have anything to do with it. I'm using Retrospect Express 5.0.238.

 

So the answer is yes, you can do it, but it's a bit confusing and I can't get it to work again. Did you look into any other software? can you recommend any other software which will do it? I would be happy to use something else if it made it easier.

 

Better still, can somebody drom Danz please explain how to do it in Retrospect.

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

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I think we all have similar problems.

 

I too have a Maxtor One Touch, and Retrospect 6.

 

I want to DUPLICATE all the files in Drives C & D on my PC to the Maxtor to Folders C and D on the Maxtor, and to have a script which will do this when the "One Touch" button is pressed, and overnight every night.

 

I am not particularly computer literate, but was assured by the vendor of the drive that the Dantz Wizards would make this extremely simple - I can't find how to do this HELP PLEASE.

 

NJSS

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  • 4 weeks later...

I finally ended up with a workaround, but not the exact solution I desired. It appears you can only select multiple drives when doing a backup, not a duplicate. I don't want a backup, because it compresses all the data and you have to restore and all that. I like the concept of the duplicate which makes the copy appear just like the source...files and folders, uncompressed. I just drag and drop to restore.

 

So I just use the OneTouch button to let it do it's normal thing on the C drive, and I moved most of my data to the My Documents folder so it's duplicated automatically. For folders on other drives, I created "duplicate" scripts and saved them to the desktop and just click them to run on demand when I wish to launch a backup.

 

On a separate issue, I've had intermittent problems with the OneTouch.exe utililty program starting on bootup and consuming 97%-100% of the CPU time and making my computer very slow. Rebooting usually solves this. Seems to be an issue with the order startup programs load or something.

 

Hope this helps.

 

- Bob

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  • 4 weeks later...

Similar problems here. My #1 harddrive has 6 partitions. C, D E, ect.

I want to DUPLICATE all partitions to my Maxton-One Touch at same time ie not 6 separate backups. I cannot figure how to do. My DESTINATION seems limited to CDs and DVDs.

Can anyone advise.

Many thanks,

Claudius

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Hi

 

If you want to use the "duplicate" feature you need to create a seperate script for each source drive. You cannot duplicate multiple drives in one script.

 

A good way to do this is create 6 scripts and schedule them all to run at the same time. That way they will automatically one after the other.

 

Nate

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I tried creating several different scripts-=one to deal with drive C , another with D etc,

The problem I encountered was when I ran the script for Drive D it deleted what on the ONE TOUCH what the script for drive C had backed up. I tried repeatedly to solve this problem but can not. Since lots of people recommend multiple scripts there must be away to have the out put of each script end up on the One TOuch--ie without each script deleting what the previous one did.

Any advice most appreciated.

Claudius

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Nate,

 

I tried to send you a private message asking if you could spell out in detail the use of multiple scripts or direct me to the info. Per my message above you will see that I find myself deleting the output of each script when I run the next one. Obviously I am missing something. Can you advise.

Thanks,

Claudius

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Hi

 

If you look closely at the One touch script you will see that it duplicates to a folder on the maxtor drive. You need to specify a seperate destination folder for each script. Otherwise you will continually overwrite the same destination volume.

 

Thanks

Nate

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  • 5 weeks later...

Here is what I did to have the one-touch button run multiple duplicate scripts.

 

This is on Windows, but i guess you can do something similar on Mac:

 

 

 

1: I created the 3 duplicate scripts

 

2: In Manage Scripts, Edit each script and click the "Save and Run" button.

 

Instead of choosing "Execute now", choose "Make a run document"

 

Save each run document on a desired location.

 

3: Create a new .cmd file( or .bat for older Windows versions ). eg. "runall.cmd"

 

4: Open the runall.cmd file in notepad and have it execute each of your run documents.

 

In my case i had 3 duplicate run scripts, so my runall.cmd looked like this:

 

"C:\Program Files\Dantz\Retrospect\Retrospect.exe" "H:\Retrospect Backup\Run script1.rrr"

 

"C:\Program Files\Dantz\Retrospect\Retrospect.exe" "H:\Retrospect Backup\Run script2.rrr"

 

"C:\Program Files\Dantz\Retrospect\Retrospect.exe" "H:\Retrospect Backup\Run script3.rrr"

 

5: Save and close the runall.cmd file

 

 

 

Now, when you double-click your runall.cmd file, it will execute all 3 scripts. Now all you need to do is associate the runall.cmd file with the one-touch button.

 

 

 

To do this, open the Maxtor OneTouch Settings application and navigate to the "OneTouch Button" tab.

 

Click "browse" and find your runall.cmd file.

 

 

 

That's it, good luck :-)

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