In my backup of about 50 client systems, I've most often configured the
client to backup the Startup Volume of a specified collection of volumes.
This choice was made to avoid the possibility of backing up CD-ROMs (which
are read-only anyway) and removable media which the user might want to
dismount while the backup was underway. (We do incrementals during the
day.)
If a colleague expected to have his/her Zip disk backed up along with the
rest of their volumes, they might be sorely disappointed. Moral: Check with
your backup administrator to ensure that the proper configuration of the
client exists to support backing up the removable volume(s).
HTH.
Brooks Peters(301) 227-1243 (voice)
NSWC - Carderock Division(301) 227-5930 (fax)
Code 5500 (Bldg. 18, Rm. 127)mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
9500 MacArthur Blvd.
West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700
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From: Hyde, Glenna M.
Sent: Thursday, February 3, 2000 12:51 PM
To: 'retro-talk'
Subject: RE: Backup of removable volumes
If the Zip disk can be left in the machine for night time backup,
Retrospect
will back it up as another volume on the client hard drive. Be sure the
Zip is named so it can be retrieved later without looking up 10 or 15
Zip100's.
Thanks
Glenna Hyde
System Administrator/Artist
Werner Ladder Co.
724-588-2000 ext 2391
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Geoffrey Lee
Reply To: retro-talk
Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2000 5:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Backup of removable volumes
Can anyone help me here.
We are using Retrospect 4.2 for macintosh.
There is a user who wants to be able to bring in an arbitrary zip disk,
put it into his machine during the day and have it backed up
We have backups running during the day (for laptops etc..), so this
should be quite simple. The problem is that we have to define each zip
disk that retrospect hasn't seen before as a volume on the client
machine
before Retrospect will back it up.
A daytime backup of the entire machine is not acceptable as this would
impede work.
Is there a way to tell retrospect only to backup removable devices or,
to
define the zip drive as a volume? Or does anyone know another way this
can
be achieved.
Many thanks,
Geoff Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computing Support
Human Communication Research Centre
University of Edinburgh
2, Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh
EH8 9LW
Scotland, UK
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