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Title: Backing up your hard drive with Retrospect


1
Backing up your hard drive with Retrospect
Easy Step by step method to create a backup
set for your Main drive on a separate backup
hard disk.
  1. Turn on Retrospect
  2. Select Automate
  3. Select Scripts
  4. Select - New

2
Selecting the Backup method
  • 5. Select No
  • 6. Select Backup
  • 7. Select - OK

If you select Yes, you will not have The option
of backing up to a file.
3
Beginning the script
  • 8. Type in First
  • Click New
  • 10. Select Sources

4
Drive and source selection
  • 11. Select - Drive C
  • Click OK
  • Click OK

5
Destination and backup type
  • Select Destinations
  • In storage type choose
  • File.
  • 14. Click - New

6
Backup set storage location
  • 15. Select where you are going to
  • store the backup. In this case
  • I chose Local Disk (E)
  • Click Save
  • Click OK


Choose any different physical drive other Than
the one you are backing up.
7
Starting the scheduling process
  1. Click OK
  2. Choose - Schedule

8
First of two schedules
  • Select Add
  • Select Repeating
  • Interval then - OK

9
When do you want your backup to occur
  • 21. Insert date of first
  • backup.
  • 22. Insert time of first
  • backup.
  • 23. Repeat Every 2 weeks
  • Action choose Recycle
  • Click OK
  • Click OK

Recycle eliminates the need to cleanse The
backups periodically.
10
Completing the first backup schedule
  • 27. Exit
  • Then Save

11
Beginning the second script
Now we are going to generate the alternate week
backup set so That you will always have a backup
no older than one week.
29. Click - New
12
Identify the second backup
  • 30. Click Backup
  • 31. Click - OK


32. Type in Second, then click - New
13
Identify the same drive to be backed up
33. Select Sources
34. Source volume is again the C drive. 35.
Click ok
14
Again determining the backup location
  1. Click OK
  2. Select Destinations

15
Selecting the storage for backup B
  • Choose Create
  • New
  • Choose File
  • then click - New

16
This location can not be the same as the drive as
the drive to be backed up
  • Select location
  • for backup.
  • 40. Click - Save

17
Verifying the backup destination
  1. Click OK
  2. Click - OK

18
Setting the final schedule
  1. Select Schedule
  2. Select - Add

19
Start date is one week after the first backup
  • Select Repeating
  • Interval, then OK
  • Insert date of second
  • backup.
  • Insert time
  • Set repeat interval
  • Action Recycle
  • Click - OK

20
Verifying the second schedule
  1. Click OK
  2. Exit out

21
The task is completed
  • Click Save and
  • exit the next screen.
  • Select - Preview

22
Review the weekly schedule and relax
  • This is your schedule
  • of backups. Once you
  • have gone this far, you
  • can forget about this
  • chore for the next few
  • years.
  • Exit out and quit the
  • Program.
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