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From: The New Guy on 3 Oct 2007 20:37 I'm trying Retrospect but I'm getting an error message: Failed to Register "Lacie Backup Support" for privileges. Any idea what my options are? It looks like its starting though. I added some exclusions but it would be nice to be able to backup just 1 folder, for example. A folder that is not in the Users folder. I'm trying a Duplicate backup. I wonder if its possible to do a smart or incremental backup afterwards or do I need to continue with duplication because I started with duplication?
From: The New Guy on 3 Oct 2007 21:18 > > Ditto with Silverkeeper. How do I backup just 1 folder? > > Click on the button labeled "Source". Choose the folder you want to > back up from the window that appears. Finally somebody has something to contribute! So mercy me....I never thought of selecting subfolders. I need more sleep...:) Anyway, one of my folders won't allow me to select it with the other folders. Its the top folder. But I can select it on its own. Also I have a pile of Aliases in this same column. They seem to be grayed out. I'd like to select them too. But it won't allow me to. Anybody have any idea why?
From: J.J. O'Shea on 3 Oct 2007 21:29 On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 20:14:18 -0400, The New Guy wrote (in article <replytogroup-9F0486.19141803102007(a)news.lga.highwinds-media.com>): >>>> Well that was a lightning fast reply. So what did I miss? I'd love >>>> to get this working properly with either SuperDuper, Retrospect or >>>> Silverkeeper. >> >> Retrospect in particular can do _anything_ you want so long as it has >> something to do with backing up or restoring from a backup... it's just not >> the easiest app in the world to use. > > If anyone can explain how to backup just one folder in Retrospect and > then do an incremental backup (only touching folders that have been > deleted, added or modified since last backup) afterwards that would be > great. 1 Launch Retro. 2 Click 'Immediate Backup' 3 Click 'Sources' 4 Click on the volume containing the folder you want to use 5 Click on 'Subvolume' 6 Select the folder you want, click on 'Define' 7 Click on 'Okay' 8 Click on 'Destination' 9 Define your backup set, including setting backup type (CD/DVD. file, Internet, removable disk...) 10 Select the files on the subvolume that you want to back up 11 Back up. It's quite straight-forward. The main problem with Retro is the overabundance of options. > >> On the other hand, if SilverKeeper isn't the easiest app in the world to >> use >> it's in the top ten. It's not as powerful as Retro, but then you don't need >> to be a pro sysadmin to use it. > > Ditto with Silverkeeper. How do I backup just 1 folder? 1 Launch SK 2 on the left pull-down menu, select 'new backup set' 3 click on source 4 select the volume and then the folder you want to back up 5 click on destination 6 click on the big purple 'Go' button. > Hello designers: Here's some questions for the user: > What folders to backup? > What to exclude in those folders? > Destination of backup? > Now that's simple! Retro will do that with absolutely no sweat. > > Tried SuperDuper but it gave some errors at the end. Plus it didn't > back up Preferences. Maybe I had a setting wrong. But I'm pretty > sure I set it to just clone the original hard drive. just launch it and use the defaults, all you have to do is select the source drive and the destination drive. > Maybe the errors > precluded it from finishing. So now I'm just backing up the whole > thing with Retrospect. We'll see how that works in a few hours. Took > about 2 hours to copy 220 gb. Does that sound right? Both on the IDE > channel. Both are 250 gb 7200 rpm drives connected to a 1.25 ghz > Mini. -- email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
From: J.J. O'Shea on 3 Oct 2007 21:31 On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 20:37:43 -0400, The New Guy wrote (in article <replytogroup-603A64.19374303102007(a)news.lga.highwinds-media.com>): > I'm trying Retrospect but I'm getting an error message: > > Failed to Register "Lacie Backup Support" for privileges. That's a SilverKeeper error. You're probably trying to back up something that only an admin is supposed to touch while running from a non-admin account. > > Any idea what my options are? > It looks like its starting though. I added some exclusions but it > would be nice to be able to backup just 1 folder, for example. A > folder that is not in the Users folder. > > I'm trying a Duplicate backup. I wonder if its possible to do a smart > or incremental backup afterwards or do I need to continue with > duplication because I started with duplication? You're working too hard. Have you tried reading the docs? -- email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
From: The New Guy on 3 Oct 2007 21:34
> > I'm trying Retrospect but I'm getting an error message: > > Failed to Register "Lacie Backup Support" for privileges. > > That's a SilverKeeper error. You're probably trying to back up something that > only an admin is supposed to touch while running from a non-admin account. Well I'm the only user. It asked me for the admin password which I entered and it accepted. Does that sound right? > > Any idea what my options are? > > It looks like its starting though. I added some exclusions but it > > would be nice to be able to backup just 1 folder, for example. A > > folder that is not in the Users folder. > > > > I'm trying a Duplicate backup. I wonder if its possible to do a smart > > or incremental backup afterwards or do I need to continue with > > duplication because I started with duplication? > > You're working too hard. Have you tried reading the docs? Thanks to a couple of great previous posts I may not have to. I really thought such a simple procedure would be easily possible without delving into pages and pages of largely irrelevant material to my simple needs. However I may have to...:) |