DLT 7000 and Retrospect

2000-02-22 Thread Andy Fleming
Hi everyone. We're trying to get a couple of DLT7000 drives to work on a few of our servers (B&W G3 with OrangeMicro SCSI Cards, B&W G3 with Adaptec SCSI cards, PowerMac WGS with Built-in SCSI to name a couple) but cannot get the DLT drives to consistently work through a backup. Sometimes we'll

SCSI and OS9?

2000-02-22 Thread Mark Zeman
Hi, Just upgraded an old fileserver (7300) to OS9 and can't see the tape drive (Sony SDT-9000 DDS3)... checked the cables, no other scsi devices, works fine under OS 8.6 is this related to retrospect 4.2 or is there an OS update somewhere?... any help or suggestions very appreciated!! -- -

Global Backup Strategy

2000-02-22 Thread Michael Kennard
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this. We have offices in Europe, Australia and the US of A. People travel with their notebooks/powerbooks all the time between the different countries. We need to back these people up no matter which office they are in. Currently I have a Backu

Re: DVD-RAM as backup media

2000-02-22 Thread SK Suh
At 7:45 AM -0500 02/22/2000, Daniel Knight wrote: >If you want to backup to DVD-RAM, learn a great deal of patience or find >a faster drive. We learned that the hard way. Any thoughts or recommendations on faster DVD-RAM drives? Stephen K. Suh ___

RE: Neophyte Scripting Query - Want The Nike Method - "JustDo It"

2000-02-22 Thread Stefan Jeglinski
Let's take any further correspondence off-line... >: I have written a script for a small company that owns an iMac, a >: Powerbook, and a PC, networked. The iMac has a zip disk connected. >: The script can copy any source target to any destination target, > >But will it automagically overwrite/k

RE: Neophyte Scripting Query - Want The Nike Method - "JustDo It"

2000-02-22 Thread Peter F. Ferris
Stefan, Hello. Thanks for taking the time to write. I'm happy with your response over-all, but... : I have written a script for a small company that owns an iMac, a : Powerbook, and a PC, networked. The iMac has a zip disk connected. : The script can copy any source target to any destination

Re: Neophyte Scripting Query - Want The Nike Method - "Just Do It"

2000-02-22 Thread Stefan Jeglinski
>I want it to do a "FULL" by default. I'm not an AppleScript guru, but I was >wondering if anyone else has walked this path ahead of me, and has a simple >"brute force" script I could scam/adapt for my purposes. I have written a script for a small company that owns an iMac, a Powerbook, and a P

Neophyte Scripting Query - Want The Nike Method - "Just Do It"

2000-02-22 Thread Peter F. Ferris
Hello All, Disclaimer: Please accept my apologies if this is a case of RTFM. I am new to the list and fairly new to Retrospect. I am trying to help a friend get going with Retrospect (sorry, I'm on a PC at work, Retrospect is on her Mac). Friend has MacOS8.x on Mac G4. My questions: 1) My fri

Error 505

2000-02-22 Thread Ronnie Livingston
What is an error 505 - client reserved? Regards, Ron Livingston Systems Engineer Siecor RD&E [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- My words speak for themselves. They do not reflect polices or endorsements on behalf of Siecor. -- --

Re: DVD-RAM as backup media

2000-02-22 Thread blm
|If you want to backup to DVD-RAM, learn a great deal of patience or find |a faster drive. We learned that the hard way. Or run your backups at 2AM or something, that's what we do. Brian -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubs

Re: DVD-RAM as backup media

2000-02-22 Thread Patrick McClure
On 2/22/2000 4:45 AM, Daniel Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] said... >>I recently purchased a Mac G4/400 with the DVD-RAM option, hoping that >>this would be a simple backup solution. > >We did the same thing with a G3/300. Apple's IDE DVD-RAM drive has got to >be the slowest in existence. And DVD-Tun

Re: Backup Server Interfering with Timbuktu (MAC)

2000-02-22 Thread Jim Coefield
Ditto this problem. Except that I can connect to the backup server, and start to do some operations, but then get disconnected with an error message: "The remote machine is running an incompatible version of Timbuktu." OS 8.6 on both machines, with Retro 4.2 Backup Server running on a B&W G3,

Re: Retrospect "forgets" normal backups!?

2000-02-22 Thread Jon Gardner
on 2/22/2000 5:23 AM, Robert Staflin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now, every Friday I've set up a recycle backup, spanning four sets of > tapes (for four weeks between recycling of one set), and then I do normal > backups Saturday through Thursday. I set the normal backups as starting > the same

Selecting Data

2000-02-22 Thread Ronnie Livingston
I am running a Retrospect 4.1 server that backs up a mixed platform of PC's and Macs. On the PC's, we have a script that is set to backup only the Data directory on each drive. The problem is that it backs up the Data directory and the files that are in the directory, but not sub-directories. W

Re: DVD-RAM as backup media

2000-02-22 Thread Daniel Knight
>I recently purchased a Mac G4/400 with the DVD-RAM option, hoping that >this would be a simple backup solution. We did the same thing with a G3/300. Apple's IDE DVD-RAM drive has got to be the slowest in existence. And DVD-TuneUp won't help -- Retrospect reformats the DVD using Apple's driver

Retrospect "forgets" normal backups!?

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Staflin
I just subscribed, so excuses for the usual reasons, please... I'm responsible for backing up a mixed environment with both stationary and mobile computers. For the mobile computers I figured that a Backup Server script would be the most suitable, since those users work on very different times

Re: Script to Shutdown/Resume 4D on Client?

2000-02-22 Thread M.Goldschmied
Why you don't use 4D Backup ? It is included in every License for the Client from Version 6.5 of 4D. You schould update to version 6.5 if you wan`t to run with MacOS 9, G3/G4 without Disk, etc. To shutdown the Server with a script is the "dirty way". Using 4D Backup is save and professional. More