Eric,
I don't have that much data and I don't want to go searching for the last
full and merge with an incremental. Several of these tapes will be rotating
offsite and archived.
J
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Ullman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 4:05 PM
To: retro-talk
Subject: Re: Retro
Hi John,
I'm trying to understand something. Can you tell me *why* you want to
perform a complete backup every night? Why not incrementals?
Thanks!
Eric Ullman
Dantz Development
John Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running Retrospect to backup about 16GB. I want to do the following:
> Nightly complete backup.
> Use a different tape each night.
>
> Setup:
> Win2K server, Retrospect, 6 slot HP tape drive.
>
> Retrospect keeps wanting to use the same tape each night and I have to
> change a setting manually and only have one tape in the drive at a time or
> it tries to use the same tape...This is so annoying...can someone help me?
>
> My ultimate goal is to rotate three sets of six tapes. Each tape will have
> one nights complete backup.
> I would like this to be automated instead of having to change a setting or
> deleting backup sets etc.
>
> J
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