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…
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Retrospect 8 – Grooming
One of the things I’ve loved about Retrospect for Windows over the years is the ability to groom a backup set. Grooming is essentially taking the old data that doesn’t need to be in the set and removing it, providing there’s still a copy if the file is still resident on the source. I’ve always felt that for clients with Retrospect for Mac the lack of grooming left them at a serious disadvantage. Well, in Retrospect 8 the Mac should end up with this same feature. When you go to Scripts you can add a Utility Script. In this case, we’ll select Groom. You then check the box for each…