Jeff and everyone,
The Outlook Express e-mail event handler included with Retrospect 4.1 and
4.2 does not work with OE 5. We have a version that does, though. Please
e-mail me directly if you would like to receive it. I expect we'll be
shipping it with our next version of Retrospect.
Regards,
Matthew Tevenan
Technical Support Specialist
Dantz Development Corporation
925.253.3050
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> From: Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:46:18 -0400
> To: retro-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: verify media
>
>>> I also wished Dantz included a small email client in the retro server so
>>> that the log could easilly be mailed to the administrator. I've tried to
>>> get the thirdparty thing to work twize but it fails each time.
>
> I've got the e-mail feature working to e-mail me logs and everything else
> and to page me if there is an error or for tape requests. (my alpha/numeric
> pager has an e-mail address). It works great. I love this feature, because I
> don't have to constantly check the server.
>
> I have it working with Outlook Express 4.0 (the script with Retrospect 4.2
> doesn't apparently work with Outlook Express 5 or at least I couldn't get it
> to work). I just followed the instructions in the manual. Let me know if you
> still can't get it to work.
>
> I haven't tried it with other e-mail programs.
>
>
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> Jeff Johnson
> System Administrator
> Just Partners
> 1710 East Franklin Street, Suite 150
> Richmond, VA 23223
> (804) 698-6309
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>> From: Eric Zylstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:41:41 -0500
>> To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: verify media
>>
>>>> I'm talking about byte-by-byte comparison. If you do no comparison,
>>>> do you check to see that your data is restorable? If you don't check
>>>> it, you must not have heard the common stories about having no
>>>> useable backup after a major crash. I've heard many.
>>>
>>> What do you do when you get a bad byte-by-byte comparison?
>>
>> I monitor by backups daily. If I see a media failure, I give the
>> drive another shot with the tape cleaner, try the tape immediately
>> for another backup and if it fails, throw it into the garbage.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I also wished Dantz included a small email client in the retro server so
>>> that the log could easilly be mailed to the administrator. I've tried to
>>> get the thirdparty thing to work twize but it fails each time.
>>
>> There is a way you can manage this with AppleScript, but I've not
>> implemented it myself.
>>
>>
>>> I plan to use Luke Jaegers suggestion of one tape each day, wouldn't that
>>> be secure enough?? I mean, if the byte-to-byte comparisson fails it nly
>>> matters if it fails on the single files the client were just working with
>>> or did I miss something...
>>
>> The key is that you need to know the media -or- the drive has failed.
>> Otherwise, you experience a silent failure--the write to tape failed,
>> but you have no idea until you attempt to do a critical restore.
>> Then you are screwed.
>>
>> Now, if you have sufficient funding for a new tape every day (365 1/4
>> tapes a year), then you probably could find a faster and better
>> backup apparatus (i. e., a bunch of IDE drives).
>>
>> Hope you enjoy your holiday.
>>
>> Eric Zylstra
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>>
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