Re: OT: Retrospect

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Date: 08/25/02 

Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:25:54 GMT

In article <UV8a9.24630$WJ3.4009366@news1.news.adelphia.net>,
dude@yougotadell.com says...
> Not related to the above but maybe I can fire a question at you?
>
> Retrospect doesn't seem to support an "overwrite" option on backup sets, and
> I'd like to use a "single tape as a set", i.e. Monday as a single tape that
> is overwritten with a Full backup every Monday.
>
> In "Backup" mode, retrospect will do a full backup to new media, and append
> changes until full, then request "Monday 2".
>
> If I choose a "New Media Backup" for EVERY execution, will retrospect always
> perform a full backup, and overwrite the "Monday" catalog file?
>
> If so, do I need to have users erase the media before execution, or does
> retrospect erase "used" media upon a "New media backup"?
>
> Only asking since they don't seem to want to provide any free support
> anymore.
>
> TIA,
> Adam
>
>
>
>
> "phoenix" <phoenix@fakeaddress.uk.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.17d2f8c340d88dca9896ae@mistral...
> > In article <9z5a9.6448$ob2.580339
> > @newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, tdenbo1@earthlink.not says...
> > > I have been using the free version of ZoneAlarm with Retrospect without
> > > problems. When I upgraded to ZoneAlarm Pro (ZAP), Retrospect hangs when
> > > backing up the boot volume.
> > >
> > > The only way I can get around this is to uninstall ZAP. I've tried
> shutting
> > > down ZAP but it still hangs.
> > >
> > > The hang comes when building the snapshot. The last thing that shows up
> when
> > > Retrospect hangs is "IIS MetaBase".
> > >
> > > I have the same problem with ZAP v3.0.118.1 and 3.0.134 with Retrospect
> > > Desktop v 5.6.132.
> > >
> > > Running W2K SP2 and SP3 give same results. Since the snapshot is not
> > > completing, the backups are unusable.
> > >
> > > Any help much appreciated.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tom Denbo
Hi

The answer depends on whether you run Retrospect interactively or
via a script. To get it to overwrite a tape on a specific day then
that needs to be run as a recycle backup - that will backup *all*
the files on your designated drives and will ask for confirmation
before overwriting a tape. If you run the same thing as a script
then you can set it to just overwrite the tape without prompting
and you can setup the scripts to be a 'normal' backup or recycle
over a set number of days and tapes.

There is an example in the documentation of how to run a cycle of
backups to ensure you have tapes that can restore your system
correctly.

Regards

Bill

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