Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It seems to me that he is already keeping his backup externally, and now wants to delete it from the internal drive and keep it externally only. Not a good idea if that is what he wants. WRT Retrospect -- it keeps N user specifiable copies of the back-up in its own format (full or incremental -- users choice) and manages them completely and automagically. It can also produce a mirror of a directory structure that is immediately usable as a back-up (which is what I use it for now). Works well, but the documentation is obscure, to say the least. -- Clive Blog: http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/blog.html Photos: http://clive.smugmug.com/ Web: http://www.clive.moss.net on 7/6/2005 4:16 PM Dennis Painter said the following: > I'm not sure that Retrospect does what Rob wants. Rob is asking for > something > that can archive data onto his external hard disc. (maybe not a good > idea but > that's what I take it he wants to do) > > Retrospect probably can be used to archive data but I didn't get a sense > it's > "automatic" Most likely the user needs to keep track of backup sets that > represent archives and make sure they don't get overwritten or deleted. > > If I'm wrong then that's great and Retrospect gets a kudo from me. ...