Re: Dantz and Retrospect

Subject: Re: Dantz and Retrospect
From: Joel Benisch <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:53:23 -0400

One way to work around this limitation is to exclude the D drive files
from the backup. Since they are not being backed up, they won't be
compared either.

Joel

email@hidden (email@hidden ) Wrote On 9/26/01 4:32 PM

>I use and have used Retrospect for at least 7 years. I love the program
>and think it has worked wonderfully for me. I however have just (in the
>last 8 months or so), bumped into (what I consider) a major inconvenience
>and problem with the program. On several machines we use Virtual PC and
>keep large D_Drives. These files on our hard drives seem to be larger
>than 2GB. Mine for example is 3.25GB. Retrospect won't back up those
>files, and even worse quits the verify compare portion of the backup when
>it gets to that file. Of course it does report a problem in the log file,
>but I think it should finish verifying all the files backed up after that
>file was verified. In addition if Connectix can create this file and
>Apple can maintain it through the OS on my Hard disk I don't know why they
>tell me that they can't backup those files and the the OS is the limiting
>factor.

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