Restrospect

I hope that I am not bothering the wrong folks with this. I am a photographer with 12 years of digital images. My Raw Archive contains over 100 GB of image files. My Working folder contains over 80 GB. Plus there are various and numerous project files.

I'm only using it with my Retrospect backup software but now I need to open different tapes directly. ...

I've heard from way more of the latter. Unfortunately things have gotten worse since Retrospect was sold by Insignia to EMC2. There have been claims that EMC2 doesn't care about the product. ...

Sure. No problem. Some of these links may be out of date; I haven't checked them in a while. Before you go for any of these, you may want to have a look at this somewhat dated, but still mostly relevant article: http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/ (Carbon Copy Cloner is now reputed to backup all metadata, just like SuperDuper!.) ...

the pale (You just reminded me of Space: Above & Beyond. Which i recently saw soem of and is unbelievably cheesy in retrospect.)

I am a photographer with 12 years of digital images. My Raw Archive contains over 100 GB of image files. My Working folder contains over 80 GB. Plus there are various and numerous project files. My G5 has two internal drives: Drive A @160 GB (soon to be 500 GB)

Before changing HDs, I backed up the old HD onto an external FireWire drive using Retrospect Express 6.1. ...

I wonder what a backup program like Retrospect will do in this case ? ...

You need to be more specific about what you want. You can use a third-party backup program, like Retrospect, Chronosync, SuperDuper!, or any of the hundreds of available programs that can do incremental backups based upon file changes. You can also write shell scripts to accomplish this as well. This can also be done with AppleScript. This can also be done with...

We are trying to back up a series of hard disks through an incremental backup software called Retrospect on an xserve. ...