shankle Posted July 8, 2004 Report Share Posted July 8, 2004 If you are running a long backup (4 hours or more) and because of a lightening storm have to turn off your computer before the backup is completed, is there a restart procedure in Retrospect 6.5? If NOT maybe Dantz would consider adding that to their next version. Thanks, JPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safendoulis Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 YES PLEASE!!! I just ran a 20Gb archive to DVD-RW which crashed on a DVD-RW #3 which it seemed not to be able to delete. Now I start over and just pray another DVD-RW that Retrospect can deal with isn't out there. This is unacceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billa2000 Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 I asked the same question on this forum two months ago and have not recieved an answer. Does anyone know exactly what Retrospect does when you click "Pause" or "Stop" during execution and then exit the program. Is the entire backup lost, so that you have to start over, or will Retrospect pick up where it left off? The possibility of loosing a 100 to 200 Gigabyte backup file that took days to create because a power failure occurs during a backup has me using Duplicate to Hard disk a lot more than I use my tape backup unit. Can someone please answer the question. What happens when a backup is interrupted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shankle Posted July 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 I am new to this forum and my observations about the forum are NOT good. I get the feeling that DANTZ could care less about our grievances and the responses to our questions are sparce to say the least. JPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Hi Simply stop the backup and shut the computer down. The next normal backup will resume the backup from the point where it stopped. If you are concerned about the integrity of the backup media you can run a "verify" operation from the tools menu in Retrospect. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billa2000 Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Thank you Nate! Dantz should add your words to the description of the Stop command in their User's Guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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