jpbecker Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 Hello everyone. I am a very happy Retrospect 6.0 user. I have used it for a couple of years now and it is an awesome program. But I am having a problem. I recented converted a 160GB drive from Fat32 to NTFS so I could go beyond the 4GB file size limit. That drive, while it was Fat32, was being backed up by Retrospect on a daily basis. When I go into Volumes, it shows my old Fat32 drive as greyed out. I can see the new NTFS drive just fine. I then define the subvolumes I want to backup. But here comes the problem. When I do a manual backup preview, on My Documents, out of 75GB, it thinks 61GB needs to be copied. But I know that that data has already been backed up in my current backup set. So, Retrospect thinks this NTFS drive is completely new and does not recoginize the contents as already being backed up. Is there anyway I can tell Retrospect that it is really the same drive? Thanks. Jay Becker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 Changing the file system, is similar to a total disk reformat. The files have new attributes they did not have before and we now need to copy these files. The operating system is telling Retrospect that these files are now different. You should forget the old fat32 disk from Configure>volumes and select the new NTFS item as your source. You will have no choice but to copy all files again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpbecker Posted March 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 What if I were to restore My Documents from my backups onto the NTFS drive. At that point do you think it would "match up" the data on the drive, with the data on backup discs? Thanks. Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpbecker Posted March 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 Or what would happen if I converted the drive back to Fat32. At that point do you think it would "match" the data on the drive with the data on the backup set? Jay Becker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 The amount of time it takes to do a restore like that would probably be slower then trying to just back it all up again. I don't think you can go back to FAT32 without a reformat (but I could be wrong). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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