Contents
- What's New
- Introducing Retrospect
- Overview of Retrospect
- Which Edition Is Right for You?
- Retrospect Add-On Products
- Requirements
- Installing Retrospect
- Installing the Retrospect Engine
- Installing the Retrospect Console
- Installing Retrospect Client software on a machine running Mac OS X
- Installing Retrospect Client software on a machine running Microsoft Windows
- Installing Retrospect Client software on a machine running Linux
- Upgrading from Previous Versions of Retrospect
- Upgrading from Retrospect 6.1
- Stopping and Starting the Retrospect Engine
- Starting and Stopping the Retrospect Console
- Overview of the Retrospect Console
- Toolbar
- List and Detail Views
- List View Toolbar
- Scope Bar
- Bottom Bar
- High-level Dashboard
- Fundamentals
- Hardware
- Sources and Storage Devices
- Sources
- Using the Sources toolbar
- Using the Scope bar
- Using the Detail area
- Customizing the Sources List
- Storage Devices
- Hardware Overview
- Working with Retrospect and Your Hardware
- Finder-Mountable Drives
- Tape Drives
- Tape Libraries
- Media Longevity and Storage
- How Retrospect Works with Multiple Backup Devices
- Communication errors with VXA-320 tape drives
- Working with Clients, Servers, and Network Shares
- Network Backup Overview
- Client Licenses
- Working with Retrospect Clients
- Client Security
- Network Interfaces
- Adding Retrospect Clients to Sources
- Testing Client Connectivity
- Removing a Client
- Getting Information About a Client
- Updating Clients
- Uninstalling a Client and Its Software
- Working with Servers and Network Attached Storage
- Adding a Server or NAS as a Source
- New Retrospect Client software
- User-initiated backups and restores
- Locking client features and preferences
- Advanced Networking
- Access Methods
- Configuring Network Interfaces and Subnets
- Network Backup Guidelines
- Choosing the Backup Device
- Choosing the Retrospect Server
- Encryption and Compression
- Working with Retrospect
- Preparing for Retrospect Operations
- Add Media Sets
- Backing up
- Using the Backup Assistant
- Creating a Backup Script Manually
- Working with Activities
- Viewing Running Scripts
- Controlling Running Activities
- Working with the Activity List
- Pausing Global Retrospect Operations
- Proactive Backups
- Proactive Backup Benefits
- How Proactive Backup Works
- When to use Proactive Backups
- Managing Resources
- Proactive Backup Tips and Techniques
- Creating a Proactive Backup Script
- Copying
- Using the Copy Assistant
- Creating a Copy Script Manually
- Archiving
- Creating an Archive Script
- Restoring
- Using the Restore Assistant to Restore an Entire Drive
- Using the Restore Assistant to Find and Restore Files and Folders
- Restoring from Retrospect 6.x backups
- Working with Schedules
- Creating a Schedule
- Disabling schedules for a script
- Working with multiple schedules
- Working with Utility Scripts
- Creating a Copy Media Set Script
- Creating a Copy Backup Script
- Creating a Verify Script
- Creating a Groom Script
- Duplicating Scripts
- Disaster Recovery for HFS+
- Overview of Disaster Recovery
- Preparing for Disaster Recovery
- Taking care of your Catalogs
- Creating a Mac OS Emergency Tools disk
- Restoring a Mac from Regular Backups
- Using FireWire Target Disk Mode
- Restoring a Mac using an Emergency Tools disk
- Doing a live restore
- Restoring a Mac from a Copy
- Start up and restore from the copy
- Restore from the copy, followed by a live restore
- What to do if the OS on the new Mac is newer than the backed-up OS
- Restoring a Windows Client
- Restoring a Linux Client
- About Mac OS X’s “Recovery HD” partition
- Disaster Recovery for APFS
- Managing Retrospect
- Retrospect Preferences
- Console Preferences
- General Preferences
- Clients Preferences
- Media Preferences
- Network Preferences
- Email Preferences
- Rules Preferences
- Licenses Preferences
- Working with Rules
- Using the Built-in Rules
- Applying Rules
- Adding or Editing Rules
- Duplicating Existing Rules
- Backup Strategies
- Basic Backup Rules
- Scripted Backups Versus Proactive Backups
- Suggested Backup Strategies
- Staged Backup Strategies
- Catalog and Configuration Backups
- Working with Reports and the Operations Log
- Customizing Report Views
- Using the Dashboard
- Creating and Saving Reports
- Editing Reports
- Viewing the Log
- Managing Media Sets
- Creating New Media Sets
- Removing Media Sets
- Adding a Media Set’s Catalog
- Creating a Copy Media Set Script
- Verifying a Media Set
- Repairing a Media Set
- Rebuilding a Media Set
- Grooming a Media Set
- Recycling a Media Set
- Moving Retrospect
- Uninstalling Retrospect
- Troubleshooting and Support Resources
Appendices
- Block Level Incremental Backup
- Instant Scan
- Retrospect for iOS
- Legacy Client
- Client Preferences
- Access Master Control
- General Preferences
- Notification Preferences
- Priority Preference
- Access Restrictions Preferences
- Influencing Proactive Backups
- Scheduling from a Client
- Deferring Execution
- Client User Preferences
- Access Master Control
- General Preferences
- Notification Preferences
- Controlling Proactive Backups
- Glossary
- Release Notes