hchristle Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 We are deploying our first lot of 30 units remote backup kits, using Retrospect Pro 6.5.350. and a 80G USB2 target HDD. We automated and packaged the the tool so field personel can install and run the standard backup script, by a "full" or "incremental" shortcut. We are getting good reports from field beta testers. We have one last detail. We want selectors to only permit the backing up of the client C and and D drives if D is present. We don't any other drive copied, whether it be regardless interface. We don't want CD, Network, USB and any other possible drive copied. I need a better solution than simply excluding each indidual drive. Is there a way to Include Everything is the drive letter is C or D? Thanks for you help Henry Christle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Hi A selector like this: include drive letter is C And filesystem is fat/NTFS or include drive letter is D And filesystem is fat/NTFS Will be able to exclude CDs anyway. USB disks are usually formatted as fat so it is hard to come up with exclusion criteria there. Hope that helps Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hchristle Posted August 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 When I select "Include Drive Letter is C:" and "Include Drive Letter is D:", of course C and D are copied. However, this does not exclude other drives. for example Drive A:. Is there a way to select Drive C and D, with the exclusion of all others? One combersome way is to "exclude" every imaginable drive specifically, IE, drive E, Drive F, ... Drive Z etc. This would be 24 exclusion statements. We do have a nice backup kit for Remote users. Using Retrospect Pro 6.5.350, and a 80G USB2 drive, we have a rugged, useful backup tool. the target is encrypted, and can be remotely installed by remote users, using CD where we have packaged the configuration which automates the backup set configurastion, encryption etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 Hi A and B drives are excluded by default and never backed up anyway. Mapped network drives are not backed up either. When you specify a specific item to include Retrospect automatically excludes anything that does not match that criteria. In other words, the "include C" or "include D" conditions automatically exclude all other drive letters. BTW make sure to separate these conditions with an "or" condition. an "and" condition won't do what you want it to. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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