- Load the Retrospect on the server, accept defaults.
- Double click on the desktop icon, it may ask you to reboot the PC. Do not close this box! Shutdown the VME and all other programs and come back to this box and click Restart or OK.
- Once the server is at the desktop, double click on Retrospect icon and click cancel on using the EasyScript wizard.
- The Retrospect Express Directory should appear and click on the Automate Tab. Then click on Scripts button and a scripts window should appear, asking you to select NEW or EDIT.
- Click on New, highlight backup and click OK. Name the script Monday (or whatever day of the week you are working on) then click NEW. A window titled Backup:MONDAY will appear, this is the script window and three options will need to be setup: Sources, Destinations and Schedule
a) Click on Source and the Volume Selection window will appear, the C: drive should already be highlighted, just click OK and OK on the next screen.
b) Click on Destinations and the Back Set Selection window will appear, click on Create New and name the set MONDAY (or whatever day you are working on) then click NEW then click SAVE (to save set to my documents) then click OK and OK.
c) Click on Schedule and the click ADD on the next window, make sure day of week in checked and click OK. Then select Run On Monday (or whatever day you are working on) and click OK and OK on next screen.
- Now that script is done click on gray cylinder on the far right to save it then click the check mark to test then click the X on the top right hand side to close it. You will need to repeat step 5, one for each day of week that they are open in order to create a rolling file save.
- Now close the script menu and mark the tapes Monday to Friday or Saturday and into every script and run a test on each tape by day. At the top of the menu, click RUN and select Monday and click Execute.
- If Monday’s tape work then you are all set, the other tapes will work if they put in the correct one for that day. Make sure that whoever is doing file save understands that they must put in the right day tape or file save will not run.
- In order to get a the Retrospect Express log to print, edit the current BACKUP.BAT and remove the old commands:
rsm.exe refresh /lf"ECRIX VXA-1 SCSI Sequential Device"
mkdir c:\oldlogs
move /y "c:\Documents and Settings\administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTbackup\Data\backup*.log" c:\oldlogs
ntbackup backup systemstate C:\ /m normal /l:s /v:yes /hc:on /p "Ecrix VXA-1" /um
copy "c:\Documents and Settings\administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTbackup\Data\backup*.log" c:\WINDOWS\BACKUP.LOG /y
C:\PRINTLOG.BAT
And replace them with:
COPY C:\progra~1\dantz\retrospect\operations_log.utx c:\oldlogs\
DEL C:\progra~1\dantz\retrospect\operations_log.utx
DEL C:\oldlogs\fs4.log
REN C:\oldlogs\fs3.log fs4.log
REN C:\oldlogs\fs2.log fs3.log
REN C:\oldlogs\fs1.log fs2.log
REN C:\oldlogs\operations_log.utx fs1.log
SRS. 5/20/2004. In Restrospect Express 6.0 the log is located in the following path instead:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Retrospect
- Then delete the PRINTLOG.BAT and copy the new RETLOG.BAT to C: drive, a copy is in the Retrospect Express folder in Support. The command in RETLOG.BAT is stated below:
NOTEPAD /p c:\progra~1\dantz\retrospect\operations_log.utx
*For this to print on the right printer, the report printer must be set as default printer in windows on the server.
- Next go into TCL and create a new MACRO named PR.RET.LOG
U MD PR.RET.LOG
01 N
02 !C:\RETLOG.BAT
*Crtl-X F to file
*Note: if the log file does not exist when this batch file is run, the process will lock on the desktop of the server and task manager must be used to kill the process.
- Now go into Batch Processing (10.10.1) and create a batch to go at 02:00:00, to go off everyday (except for MON or SUN & MON). Also do not forget to put a period in front of the program name because it is a TCL command (it will not work with out it). Then save it and check and see if they are using batch processing. If not just start it and you are done.
