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Subject: [Leica] OT: Technical Question on Backup External Hard Drives
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Jul 7 00:41:40 2005

Indeed.


> From: Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:25:44 +0200
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:  Technical Question on Backup External Hard Drives
> 
> IMO, wth the scripting options of Retrospect it should be possible to
> define what is and what is not backuped.
> Didier
> 
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Philippe Orlent wrote:
>> 
>>> Buy Dantz Retrospect:
>>> 
>>> http://www.dantz.com/en/products/index.dtml
>>> 
>>>> From: Rob McClure <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com>
>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:29:34 -0400
>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:  Technical Question on Backup External Hard
>> Drives
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> Here's a question for your computer techies out there.  I recently
>>>> acquired a large-capacity Seagate external hard drive and back up my
>>>> entire Mac iBook G4 hard drive every few days.  However, the hard drive
>>>> on the Mac is over half full and is really sluggish when using iPhoto
>>>> (more than 4,000 images).  I'd like to delete the albums on iPhoto and
>>>> keep my entire collection on the Seagate.  I can't figure out how to do
>>>> this as I'm afraid that the external drive will mirror my deletion of
>>>> the internal Mac drive the next time I do a back up.  The,
>>>> instructions which came with the Seagate were totally inadequate in
>>>> this regard.  Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Rob McClure
> 
> 
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