05-13-2008, 02:07 PM
I always found Retrospect very difficult to recover files from - which is what we installed and used the damn thing for in the first place!
Also, if you rotate backup media (hard drives in my case), the catalog file gets stored with the backup data. The catalog is required for making a recovery, and if you are trying to recover files from a catalog that doesn't match the latest log file that Retrospect has, you don't get anything recovered.
I of course found all of this out after I needed to recover a system that crashed hard. Investigated other options, and quickly switched to SuperDuper.
Jeff
Also, if you rotate backup media (hard drives in my case), the catalog file gets stored with the backup data. The catalog is required for making a recovery, and if you are trying to recover files from a catalog that doesn't match the latest log file that Retrospect has, you don't get anything recovered.
I of course found all of this out after I needed to recover a system that crashed hard. Investigated other options, and quickly switched to SuperDuper.
Jeff