Retrospect Incremental seems to want a full backup???

Hello everyone,
I was hoping someone could shed some light on a Retrospect issue.
I have a G4 Xserve with OS X Server 10.4.3 and Retrospect 6.1.126 with a Sony AIT-3 Autoloader. I have 3 storage sets, one for a long term incremental and two to run full backups every second week and incrementally everyday.
The funny thing is that it has been working fine but one day we had a power cut and now retrospect’s catalogues seems to think that the files had never been previously backed up! It now wants to backup the whole server again. This isn't a huge problem as two of the storage sets are recyclable ever second week anyway and I just have to add more tapes to the long term incremental.
I just want to know if anyone has any ideas how this happened and if it is likely to happen again?
Nothing has changed, the path to the data is the same and the name of the drive is the same. The volume is two 250GB ADM mirrored together. The RAID is fine. Retrospect is still set to match files (so if you did change the path it would match the files and not bother to back it up again).
Any thoughts?
Many thanks,
David

Hi David
At a guess, it sounds like the storage sets have gone sideways, I have seen this before with retrospect and incremental backups.
You can either -
Rebuild the storage set from tapes (depending on how many tapes in this set)
Backup the whole RAID to tape and carry on with the current set
Start a new Incremental set and keep the old one as archive
I always setup retrospect to duplicate the storage sets to another device on the network after incremental backup, so if the set goes bad I can just grab the last one from less than 24hours ago and carry on.
Regards
Ed

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