Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty
From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: After the stack: Some questions about Retrospect
Keywords: Retrospect archive queries
Message-ID: <7901@fluke.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 89 17:25:42 GMT
Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Lines: 37

[I imagine I could direct this at Chuq, but why put him on the spot? :-)]

Played around with the Retrospect overview stack, and it certainly looks
interesting.  A couple of questions, which I hope someone can answer without
getting in dutch with Dantz:

1)  CLASSIFICATION.  Is there some way of providing information about what
the file you're archiving is -- something you can examine at a later time
when you're scanning through the files on the archive tape/disk/whatever?
An info box/window, or something?  Actually, it would be tedious for me to
type in information on every file I archived -- I tend to classify my stuff
by what folder it's in. (e.g. my digitized theme to Secret Agent Man is in
Sound:Sound Files:TV:Secret Agent Man).  Is there some way to either
preserve the structure or indicate the pathname the file was in when it was
archived? 

Perhaps I should generalize: how are the archived files classified?

2)  DELETION/REPLACEMENT.  Is there some way to delete a single file off the
archived list?  Is the space then reusable by something else?  Is there a
way to overwrite an older edition program with a newer one on the archive?
(When it's physically possible, I mean, i.e. not a WORM drive.)

Certainly looks good; using partitions and tape drives, I'm currently using
DiskFit for archiving, but it's still tedious.  I just want to make sure
Retrospect will take a significant amount of that tedium away before
purchasing it. (And hopefully, I won't have to do too much work to get
things in order for Retrospect archiving.)

                           "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine."
                                           -- Patti Smith
---
                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
INTERNET:     moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
Manual UUCP:  {uw-beaver, sun, hplsla, thebes, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty
CREDO:        You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>