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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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Subject: Re: Retrospect Question(s)
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Date: 8 Mar 91 21:23:15 GMT
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In article <17064@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
#>
#>I have a pair of questions about Retrospect:
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#>1.  What is the current version (I have 1.2)?
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#>2.  If I create an Archive, and I want to add files or folders to the
#>archive, how exactly do I do it?  Do I just select the archive on my
#>tape drive, then select the files I want to add and execute it?  I'm
#>afraid I'll overwrite the existing files in the archive if I do this
#>(I currently have only one tape, so I'm not free to experiment).
#>
#>Thanks,
#>
#>jas

Retrospekt does NOT create incremental archives. Each
time you run it, it creates an entirely new backup
until you run out of space on your backup device. Since
I am backing up to a removable, I found this behavior
unacceptable and have resumed using SUM backup. I was
told that Retrospekt could be configured to erase the
oldest backup archive when the disk is full, but it
didn't appear to be easy to do.

Steve Goldfield