I came across a solution that seems to work: there's a script on the
Dantz site that shoves the Finder to the front when it is
auto-launched. Doesn't seem to cut the backup speed too much.
>Retro is backing up Clients (mostly) tho it does back up a server as well.
>My Mac (a G3) is running 4D Client, not Server.
>
>>Owen,
>> Are you backing up network data via the Retrospect remote clients
>>or by mounting drives?
>> If you are using the clients, you could try throttling back the
>>backup priority on the clients.
>> You can also try switching to Appletalk protocol for remote backups.
>>
>>Other things to consider
>> Maybe its time to upgrade your sever or put Retrospect on a
>>separate machine.
>> The problems you are encountering could be directly related to
>>overworking an under-powered machine.
>> 4D Server requires a fair amount of horsepower (I recommend
>>running it on a dedicated machine).
>>
>>Hope this helps
>>
>>
>>At 7:07 PM +1300 2/7/01, Owen Watson wrote:
>>>I'm running Retro 4.3 on my work Mac to backup the network.
>>>Unfortunately it seems to take up all the network capacity on my
>>>machine, which leads to timeout problems with network clients such
>>>as 4D Client and Eudora. Is there any way I can throttle back
>>>Retro from 100% to say 90% of network capacity? Putting Retro in
>>>the background knocks it back too much: it would be nice to have a
>>>bit more control over how much network capacity is taten.
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