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
Selecting the Backup method
5. Select – No
If you select Yes, you will not have
The option of backing up to a file.
6. Select – Backup
7. Select - OK
Beginning the script
8. Type in – First
9. Click – New
10. Select Sources
Drive and source selection
11. Select - Drive C
1. Click – OK
2. Click – OK
Destination and backup type
12. Select – Destinations
13. In storage type choose
File.
14. Click - New
Backup set storage location
15. Select where you are going to
store the backup. In this case
I chose Local Disk (E)
Choose any different physical drive other
Than the one you are backing up.
16. Click – Save
17. Click OK
Starting the scheduling process
18. Click – OK
19. Choose - Schedule
First of two schedules
19. Select – Add
20. Select – Repeating
Interval then - OK
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
24. Action: choose – Recycle
Recycle eliminates the need to cleanse
The backups periodically.
25. Click – OK
26. Click OK
Completing the first backup schedule
27. Exit
28. Then – Save
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
Identify the second backup
30. Click – Backup
31. Click - OK
32. Type in – Second,
then click - New
Identify the same drive to be backed up
33. Select Sources
34. Source volume is
again the C drive.
35. Click – ok
Again determining the backup location
36. Click – OK
37. Select – Destinations
Selecting the storage for backup B
38. Choose – Create
New
39. Choose – File
then click - New
This location can not be the same as the
drive as the drive to be backed up
39. Select location
for backup.
40. Click - Save
Verifying the backup destination
42. Click – OK
43. Click - OK
Setting the final schedule
44. Select – Schedule
45. Select - Add
Start date is one week after the first
backup
46. Select – Repeating
Interval, then – OK
47. Insert date of second
backup.
48. Insert time
49. Set repeat interval
50. Action – Recycle
51. Click - OK
Verifying the second schedule
52. Click – OK
53. Exit out
The task is completed
54. Click – Save and
exit the next screen.
54. Select - Preview
Review the weekly schedule – and relax
56. This is your schedule
of backups. Once you
have gone this far, you
can forget about this
chore for the next few
years.
57. Exit out and quit the
Program.