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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
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- Subject: Re: Retrospect Question
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:44:06 GMT
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- geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thumper) writes:
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- >In <728024516.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>Ladd.Morse@p804.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org
- (Ladd Morse) writes:
-
- >>Any idea if one can do an initial comprehensive backup to tape, then do
- >>incremental backups to floppy?
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- >You couldn't do it with the same archive. Retrospect ties each one to a
- >specific media type. But you could have a backup archive on DAT that
- >automatically resets and does a comprehensive backup each time you use it
- >and have an incremental archive on disk at home that is based on
- >modification dates.
-
- >Not perfect but functional.
-
- Actually, you could make this a bit more functional by telling the
- incremental backup script to check the Modification Date against the
- Backup Date (set by Retrospect and most backup utilities whenever they
- back something up). This will give you a little better control than just
- using the Modification Date.
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