Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If Rob is comfortable with scripting options then that's fine. My experience is limited but I have yet to see backup and archive software that is both easy and bulletproof. Rob should be able to say "I want these files archived and I don't want them deleted or overwritten without me confirming at least 2-3 times" And he shouldn't have to write scripts to do that. Humor (sort of): when the computer prompts you: Are you sure? The answer is alway no ;-) bests, Dennis Didier Ludwig wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information