I use Retrospect Backup to… backup (oddly enough). Anyway, it used to run quite well on XP, but on Vista, it hasn’t been as good. It hides in the background, and you can’t interact with it in any way; if you run the main app during a backup, it tells you it’s running a backup, and you can’t do anything with it. I had a dig around and never found much info, so I just had a fiddle around myself.
Basically, Retrospect runs as the Local System account. That’s all well and good, but I can’t see it from my account. To get around that, I need the Retrospect Helper service to run as me. There won’t be any problems with file rights, as I own all the files anyway.
So what you can do is this:
- Press Windows + R to get the Run box to show.
- Enter the following command to remove the service:
C:\Program Files\Retrospect\Retrospect 7.5\retrorun.exe -u
- Now run Regedit, and navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\.
- Create a new String key, and give it a name of Retrospect. Enter the following string value:
C:\Program Files\Retrospect\Retrospect 7.5\retrorun.exe -a
And there you go, you now have Retrospect running in the user space, and able to be monitored.
So now I have that going, I can find out what the hell Retrospect is up to that means my backups take over 12 hours to complete!