lunadesign Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 I'm using an external SCSI DDS4 drive with Retrospect 6.5 for Windows. While doing my weekly incremental backups three weeks ago, my current tape (the 4th in a set of 4) gave me problems during the compare phase. When I tried it again a few weeks later, I got error code -102 (trouble communicating). So, I'm pretty sure tape #4 is bad. What do I do now? I don't want to start a new full backup set because it will take all day switching through 4 tapes. Is there a way to add a new tape to the existing backup set and tell Retrospect to do an incremental backup that picks up everything that's not already on tapes 1-3? I'm assuming tape 4 can't be trusted for restores and want to toss it. Many thanks in advance.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Hi Go to configure->backup sets and click on properties for the backup set in question. On the members tab set tape #4 as missing. Retrospect will automatically mark all the files that were on that tape as missing. It will ask you for a new tape, name it number 5 and do an incremental backup as normal, backing up any files that are not already in the set. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunadesign Posted August 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 Thank you so much! What threw me off is that the dialog says "Set Missing" not something like "Tape Missing" and I was afraid pushing that button would nuke the entire backup set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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