THE SITH HITS THE FANS - Transcript

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Jane: I have actually now I have added a question regarding the backup. I run Retrospect and I have to do that full backup and I run it nightly. How often should I sort of start all over again with a new file?

David Lawrence: Oh when the hard drive gets full, I mean what will happen is Retrospect will say hey I am out of room on this disk. At that point are you only running one backup disk?

Jane: I am running it on a Maxtor on a hard drive and then I also you know periodically put it on like a DVD and move it out of the house.

David Lawrence: So what I would do is I would you know save up some dole and get a second Maxtor. Their OneTouch has all come with Retrospect on them so I will get that second Maxtor and use that out of the house first off, but when your one disk gets full use that second Maxtor to do a complete backup or whatever you have been doing up until that point. That will be your safety net and then you simply use what's called the Restore Function, not restoring data but reusing the space. You are reclaiming all of the space on that drive when you simply erase everything knowing that you have another backup on another drive, you erase everything and start from scratch. The first backup on that reclaimed drive and if I can bring up, Lilli bring up my, so I give you the right terminology on this let me bring up my retrospect. Under the actual, the actual setup for the media, you will see a couple of options depending upon what it is that you are doing and hang on one second here I am going to tell you exactly what it is. It is under tools, no it*s under configure backup settings. Take a look at that figure and under options okay. Under Media, Recycle is the name for it. Under Media you have an action button and there you have Normal," "Recycle" and "New Media.* You want to choose Recycle let the machine, let Retrospect erase that disk and then start a backup from scratch from there and then you will have all that reclaimed space and you will be able to get all your data on and all of the subsequent snapshots.

Jane: Right.

David Lawrence: Did that make sense?

Jane: That does.

David Lawrence: Alright hold the line we will get to your second question. It*s Online Tonight I am David Lawrence back in just a moment.

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