[Leica] OT: Technical Question on Backup External Hard Drives

[dennis at hale-pohaku.com (Dennis Painter)]

I'm not sure that Retrospect does what Rob wants. Rob is asking for
something
that can archive data onto his external hard disc. (maybe not a good
idea but
that's what I take it he wants to do)

Retrospect probably can be used to archive data but I didn't get a sense
it's
"automatic" Most likely the user needs to keep track of backup sets that
represent archives and make sure they don't get overwritten or deleted.

If I'm wrong then that's great and Retrospect gets a kudo from me.

Philippe Orlent wrote:

> Buy Dantz Retrospect:
>
> http://www.dantz.com/en/products/index.dtml
>
> > From: Rob McClure <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:29:34 -0400
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:  Technical Question on Backup External Hard 
> > Drives
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here's a question for your computer techies out there.  I recently
> > acquired a large-capacity Seagate external hard drive and back up my
> > entire Mac iBook G4 hard drive every few days.  However, the hard drive
> > on the Mac is over half full and is really sluggish when using iPhoto
> > (more than 4,000 images).  I'd like to delete the albums on iPhoto and
> > keep my entire collection on the Seagate.  I can't figure out how to do
> > this as I'm afraid that the external drive will mirror my deletion of
> > the internal Mac drive the next time I do a back up.  The,
> > instructions which came with the Seagate were totally inadequate in
> > this regard.  Thanks!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rob McClure