doug316 Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 I have previously formatted my DVD+RW media and am using it for a normal backup. The program goes into "erasing" mode and stays there for maybe a half hour, even though it's already been formatted. If I kill the Retrospect process and restart with the same media, it completes the erasing stage much faster. Something is happening, clearly this is a bug due to the fact that it seems to hang on the erase unless I kill and restart the program. Anyone have similar experiences? I have a NEC DVD+RW ND-5100A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 Hi This is the expected behavior with Retrospect. By default it does a long erase on RW media to ensure the media is in good shape. Your best bet is to give Retrospect unformatted blank media when possible. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug316 Posted March 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 This is very unfortuante. It should be an option for sure. I'm not sure I buy this explanation, however, because when I interrupt the process and re-start it, it doesn't go through the same lengthy check. If I have to switch DVD's 8 times to back up a large drive, this will keep my computer busy for days unless I feel like sitting in front of it constantly to keep changing CD's. And because of the poor "performance" of the software, the computer is unusable for other tasks while a backup is running. Backup software is not that complicated of a deal. I don't know why something that is actually usable for the average desktop computer user is just not available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 Hi Your point is well taken. Dantz tends to keep on the conservitive side of things when it comes to optical media. If you look around the forums you will see that optical media is likely the most problematic. That may simply be a reflection of its popularity however. In any case, our engineers are concerned about the media integrity enough to make the long erase mandatory. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhg Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 Add a vote for being able to select short erase for DVD+RW. This takes WAY too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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