Retrospect Backup Misses Empty Folders
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texte = Over the weekend we had to recover our website after a nasty crash. We used our hourly Retrospect backup to bring back our files. To our utter astonishment and dismay Retrospect does not recover empty folders.Our site relies on putting carts and other order related files in folders to have them processed. The great majority of the time these folders sit empty, but without them the processing portion of the site breaks completely. WebCatalog will try to process any files that are in these folders so we cannot put placeholder files. Even invisible files trigger the process. There is no way to avoid having these files sit empty. Thus whenever Retrospect backups the site it finds a lot of empty folders which it makes note of but not restore.When we realized what was happening we checked the FAQ's Retrospect's site and read that this is normal behavior for Retrospect and that there is no way to force it to restore any empty folders. Once we picked up our jaws from the floor we figured there must be some other backup option that will backup and restore a site including all folders, whether they are empty or not.Has anybody else come across this problem? How else do we backup our site? Why would this be the default behavior of Retrospect? We are using Retrospect 4.2 backing up to a VXA tape drive on a PowerMac G4 running MacOS 9.0.4. We use WebStar 4.2 and WebCatalog 3.0.8 to run our site. Alessandro Abate tech@vinoeolio.com Webmaster, vinoeolio.com La Compagnia Dell' Olio 305.655.1142 T 1021 Ives Dairy Rd., Ste 113 305.655.1148 F Miami, Florida 33179------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Over the weekend we had to recover our website after a nasty crash. We used our hourly Retrospect backup to bring back our files. To our utter astonishment and dismay Retrospect does not recover empty folders.Our site relies on putting carts and other order related files in folders to have them processed. The great majority of the time these folders sit empty, but without them the processing portion of the site breaks completely. WebCatalog will try to process any files that are in these folders so we cannot put placeholder files. Even invisible files trigger the process. There is no way to avoid having these files sit empty. Thus whenever Retrospect backups the site it finds a lot of empty folders which it makes note of but not restore.When we realized what was happening we checked the FAQ's Retrospect's site and read that this is normal behavior for Retrospect and that there is no way to force it to restore any empty folders. Once we picked up our jaws from the floor we figured there must be some other backup option that will backup and restore a site including all folders, whether they are empty or not.Has anybody else come across this problem? How else do we backup our site? Why would this be the default behavior of Retrospect? We are using Retrospect 4.2 backing up to a VXA tape drive on a PowerMac G4 running MacOS 9.0.4. We use WebStar 4.2 and WebCatalog 3.0.8 to run our site. Alessandro Abate tech@vinoeolio.com Webmaster, vinoeolio.com La Compagnia Dell' Olio 305.655.1142 T 1021 Ives Dairy Rd., Ste 113 305.655.1148 F Miami, Florida 33179------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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