Try Chapter 2 of the Retrospect Manual: Fundamentals. Best trick with
Retrospect is not to make any assumptions about it - if you think that you're
being smart and getting around a traditional backup/retore problem, don't
bother 'cause retrospect has probably already taken that into account for you :)
The only instances where you will need to track things a little differently is
if (as others have mentioned) you have massive database files that change on a
regular basis. Don't forget that by doing full backups, you are losing the
versioning capability so if you save a file with mistakes and you're doing full
backups you've lost the older versions.
I used to have some literature that I'd written out for explaining
incrementalPlus somewhere - have to go dig that out of the archives...
Cheers,
Erik
Quoting David Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Eric - is there a really good, down-to-earth, layman's terms
> explanation of
> > IncrementalPlus lying around somewhere? Sounds like it's time for a
> note on
> > how it works, why it's so functional, and how it makes our lives
> easier. I'd
> > do it myself but why reinvent the wheel? I'm sure you have a
> ready-made
> > "tutorial" somewhere around there, no? :-)
>
> Reading between the lines I suspect that one or both of these folks
> are
> trying to apply the typical Win/DOS backup tape operation to
> Retrospect.
> Over the years I've discovered you have to talk about how low end PC
> backup programs which use the archive bit to know what's changed and
> erase all of that from their head before they begin to understand how
> Retrospect works. And until that happens their setup, usage, and
> results
> will be a mess.
>
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