Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]IMO, wth the scripting options of Retrospect it should be possible to define what is and what is not backuped. Didier >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