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From: greg@enterprise.Sun.COM (Greg George - Sun Area Project Consultant - Midwest )
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Subject: Re: Retrospect Question(s)
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Date: 8 Mar 91 21:52:35 GMT
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In article <1991Mar8.212315.20572@agate.berkeley.edu>, steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
|> 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

HUH? I'm confused. The whole basis behind Retrospect is
adding to a backup rather than creating a brand new one
everytime you want to save your work. Now SuperMac does
produce a disk backup product (name escapes me for the
moment) that creates a brand new backup everytime you
use it. That became very irritating - as the gentleman
above explained. To get Retrospect to do what you want
you are going to need to create a script to backup
what you want, and to the device it needs to go to.

Considering the multitude of possibilities for backup
and archive (which I havn't seen anywhere else), I have
found Retrospect to be the best backup program you
can buy.

greg

p.s. Archiving allows Retrospect to delete the files
it backed up from your hard drive (why waste disk
space with something you won't use for 6 months?)