Backing up your hard drive with Retrospect

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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

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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.
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Beginning the script

• 8. Type in First
• Click New
• 10. Select Sources

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Drive and source selection

• 11. Select - Drive C
• Click OK
• Click OK

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Destination and backup type

• Select Destinations
• In storage type choose
• File.
• 14. Click - New

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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.
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Starting the scheduling process

1. Click OK
2. Choose - Schedule

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First of two schedules

• Select Add
• Select Repeating
• Interval then - OK

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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.
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Completing the first backup schedule

• 27. Exit
• Then Save

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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
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Identify the second backup

• 30. Click Backup
• 31. Click - OK

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

1. Click OK
2. Select Destinations

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Selecting the storage for backup B

• Choose Create
• New
• Choose File
• then click - New

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This location can not be the same as the drive as
the drive to be backed up

• Select location
• for backup.
• 40. Click - Save

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Verifying the backup destination

1. Click OK
2. Click - OK

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Setting the final schedule

1. Select Schedule
2. Select - Add

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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

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Verifying the second schedule

1. Click OK
2. Exit out

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The task is completed

• Click Save and
• exit the next screen.
• Select - Preview

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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.