Side Note: Speaking of Amazon I got my bill for last month from them for my S3 account. I’m currently testing using this with Amazon S3 for offsite, but cannot say that my tests are going very well…

One immediate use might be to duplicate a recently groomed set of disk based backups to tape in order to send them off to Iron Mountain or some other offsite storage. This allows you to skip a step in a number of offsite rotation scripts or disk2disk2tape setups. American Standard 27 Retrospect Pedestal Sink Combination Linen 8 Faucet Holes Authentic Style Pedestal Hidden Front Overflow 36 Height 27W. Why wouldn’t you want to recycle them? Because right after the recycle event you’ll have a potential point of failure where you don’t have a copy of your data, which you currently mitigate by having multiple sets with the same data… Very inefficient compared to grooming…Īnother great utility script in Retrospect 8 for Mac is the ability to copy a media set or copy another backup. When would you use grooming? Any time you have sets that grow and you don’t want to recycle them. So any file not required for the 10 last backups will be removed from the disk based backup set when the next grooming script runs. Now you have only 10 gigs taken up by that file. Now let’s say that you groom away 10 of those backups by setting a grooming policy of 10. If you changed a 1 gig file every day then you’ll have 20 gigs taken up by that one file. If you do a backup without a recycle 20 times, then you have 20 snapshots. Think about it this way, Retrospect backup scripts use snapshots.

There were a ton of questions about what exactly grooming is. It will be slow on the older Macs, though, and. My last post showed how to do grooming in Retrospect 8. User Evaluation: (on a scale of 0 to 10) Number of responses: 15 Ease of installation: 9 Ease of learning: 7 Ease of use: 8 Power & usefulness: 9 Documentation: 7 Technical support: 8 Overall evaluation: 9 Hardware Requirements: Retrospect works fine on any Mac with a minimum of 1 MB of RAM.

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