• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    More on Retrospect 8 Utility Scripts

    My last post showed how to do grooming in Retrospect 8.  There were a ton of questions about what exactly grooming is.  Think about it this way, Retrospect backup scripts use snapshots.  If you do a backup without a recycle 20 times, then you have 20 snapshots.  If you changed a 1 gig file every day then you’ll have 20 gigs taken up by that one file.  Now let’s say that you groom away 10 of those backups by setting a grooming policy of 10.  Now you have only 10 gigs taken up by that file.  So any file not required for the 10 last backups will be removed from…