> Eric - is there a really good, down-to-earth, layman's terms explanation of
> IncrementalPlus lying around somewhere? Sounds like it's time for a note on
> how it works, why it's so functional, and how it makes our lives easier. I'd
> do it myself but why reinvent the wheel? I'm sure you have a
The drive where the shap shots are stored is full or corrupt. I had a
similar one a while back and it turned out the drive directory was all
messed up.
> Up until recently, I was running Retrospect 4.3 on a Power Mac 9600, and
> backing up servers and workstations (I work for a book publisher) to
I use a Mac to backup a Dell PIII to a DAT drive. (This was an
evolution, not a new setup.) Yesterday I realized that the backup wasn't
working because the name of the PC had changed from "Dell PIII
Accounting" to "111ES" about a week ago.
Any ideas as to what could have done this? And the odds o
I just did two test backups using a DDS-3 drive. One to a DDS-3 tape and
the other to a DDS-1 tape. Both with verify and both ran fine. And I
remember that with an upgrade I did two weeks ago from a DDS-1 to a
DDS-3 that I continued with the DDS-1 tapes until the DDS-3 tapes came
in. All of this w
I'll check this out later today.
matt barkdull wrote:
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> I don't think the DDS-3 drives will read the DDS-1 tapes, but will
> read the DDS-2.
>
> Basically this means they are one step backward compatible.
>
> DDS-3 will read/write DDS-2
> DDS-2 will read/write DDS-1
>
> DDS-1 cannot read/wr
> > I like the HP DDS/DAT drives. <
>
> thanks for the info on this ... Sounds like these could fit in as a part
> of my overall multi-faceted backup system (I think I want a USB disc,
> too).
>
> Now, can you tell me: Someone else informed me of the DDS-1 -2 -3
> breakdowns and the different
> What's the scoop here? I've been running on the assumption that if I
> lost a tape under mysterious circumstances that the information would
> be unrecoverable.
Nothing is unrecoverable if you have enough time. So the real question
is how long would the various choices take to crack.
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> The performance is based on the raw number of MB transferred to the backup
> device from the source volume.
BEFORE software compression?
I ask since as I understand it remote clients compress before shipping
to the Retrospect module that doing the writing to the device.
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Can someone at Dantz answer this please?
Thanks
David Ross wrote:
>
> I know this has been answered here before but I can't find it in any of
> the messages I've saved.
>
> Is the data rate shown in the real time backup progress window the rate
> at which data, co
> thanks very much for taking the time to share yr backup strategy with
> me, Malcom -- excellent ideas, since I basically have had no overall
> efficient strategy myself! i like yr idea of using a disc for
> increments, then weekly backing to tape. I'll also do off-site storage
> for one backup
> Just in the last couple of days, one of my Windows clients has started
> returning the following error message:
>
> "Can't access volume DISK (C:) on WIN_CLIENT, error 5 (unknown)"
>
> The client computer is running Windows 98 with Retro client 5.1 for
> windows.
Anytime I have retro not find
I know this has been answered here before but I can't find it in any of
the messages I've saved.
Is the data rate shown in the real time backup progress window the rate
at which data, compressed or not, is going to the drive or is it the
rate at which the data is being lifted off the source disk?
You may have already done this but have you powered everything off and
back on? These small tape drives are really computers with a very
limited user interface and to be honest things like this have a tendency
to have bugs in the error recovery process. Turning everything off and
back on my reset
> DLT has not addressed that issue. Since linear pulls the tape across the
> heads at a faster rate (150 inches per second vs helical scan's .5"/second),
> it requires streaming -- otherwise you end up "shoe-shining". This
> reposition is very intense on the heads/tape of a linear drive.
>
> Th
I know on macs that rebuilding a catalog from scratch is a long process
for one tape. Much less more than one.
> I know that this sounds like the long way, but isn't it possible to start
> from ground zero? I mean that if I start with a clean install of NT 4.0,
> then install Retrospect, then ha
> > > > So I've been trying to remember to turn off the DEFAULT wait at shutdown
> > > > that you get when you install a client but is there a way out of this
> > > > when it does happen?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I found that you can type 'r' or 's' in the Retrospect Client's Wait at
> > > Shutdown dia
> > So I've been trying to remember to turn off the DEFAULT wait at shutdown
> > that you get when you install a client but is there a way out of this
> > when it does happen?
> >
>
> I found that you can type 'r' or 's' in the Retrospect Client's Wait at
> Shutdown dialog and the computer will e
Situation.
Some computers would be locked up in the morning when folks came in. It
appeared to be sleeping but couldn't be awakened.
I normally set all desktops to turn off at 5:30am to allow time for the
backup but have them off over weekends and holidays. (This is in
multiple offices.)
I fina
> >>So Retrospect reports errors that it finds in the network setup that
> >>doesn't affect ANYTHING else? If these errors existed then why does
> >>nothing else complain?
> >
> >Yet.
> >
> >>I copy large files from one machine to another, but that never fails
> >
> >Yet.
>
> That's taking a rath
I've seen this when the volume containing the catalogs is almost full
and the save after the backup is completed fails. Also if the directory
of this volume is corrupted.
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> I am very familiar with how modem compression, network compression,
> and file compression works. When I was going through school, one of
> our projects was to write a compression algorythem and compress a
> file (yes, it was a text file) the best we could. With my limited
> math background, I
> Ok, explain to me...I took a 220MB system file and compressed it down to 28MB.
Must have had a lot of repeating data. Text files, etc... Also was that
220MB of allocated space or used space. I'd bet the former.
> Obviously this is lossless as I can recover individual files from
> within it tha
> I am using Retrospect 4.3 for Mac with an Aiwa TD-8001 tape drive. The drive
> has dual heads, apparently so that it can do read after write, eliminating
> the need for the whole second verification run after the backup.
>
> Does Retrospect support this feature? Read after write capability woul
> mmm. . . I think you've misunderstood me. All I'm wanting is an
> indication that a set is incomplete either when I choose it from the
> list of backup sets (by perhaps a broken icon or whatever) or when
> the results of a restore are presented ie an alert saying "Not all
> the possible files ar
> You will need to go into each backup script and tell where the
> storage set is now located as well. Important step. The backup will
> not happen if you don't.
You can shortcut this by double clicking the files for the backup sets.
Select them all in the finder and double click. You'll get a
> It could of course be hardware - but what hardware breaks occasionally and then is
>fixed after a reboot?
Lots. A reboot clears out lots of things, especially ram. If you have a
flakey bit of ram you'll only see the problem when you run into it. And
when you hit it will depend many times on t
> >I'm running it on a beige G3 300MHz desktop. I wouldn't trust a Power
> >Computing system as a backup server...those are the Packard-Bell of the Mac
> >clone world.
>
> Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple
> equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and
> But can SIMS collect from a POP3 account and redistribute to local
> addresses as does FetchMail and ASIP is supposed to do (but you
> cannot configure it properly so it's not a useful as it appears)?
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> > A autosensing hub has a built-in 2 port switch. Any 100Mbps ports are repeated
> > together, as are the 10Mbps ports. The built in switch connects the 100Mb
> > group to the 10Mb group.
> >
> Which, by the way, creates an interesting problem when using a tool
> such as EtherPeek to record Ethe
> What confuses me is that why don't the tape drive mfg write their
> software to be recognized by Windows as a tape device and all
> Retrospect would have to be able to do is read and write to that
> device through the Windows library... Wait, that's what is suppose
> to happen, no?
I doubt Dan
Also have you:
1) Restarted the computer? This must be done at least once after you
first setup an automated run. I've run into this were computers tend to
be left on 24/7.
2) Have you looked at the preview so see what retrospect thinks should
be happening?
> > This really does work...honest. B
> > What would give better performance, a G3 upgrade to the 6100 or a 100
> > base T card. I can only do one since the 6100 only has one slot.
A 100 base T card in a NuBus adapter on a 6100 will only go about 4
times as fast as the 10baseT connection. The drivers, the bus, and the
6100 just aren'
> I think this was just discussed but when I clicked the link for the archives
> it just gave me a list and no way to search. Here's the short of it.
> Restored drive, now virtual PC says it wasn't properly installed... Is there
> a "proper" way to restore it? or am I stuck?
The installation of V
> What I have been doing:
> I have setup the virtual pc folder (which contains the one huge file known
> as the c drive to the pc world) as a separate subvolume. I then have one
> script that backs up everything BUT the virtual pc folder and a different
> script that runs once a month to backup ju
Ken Gillett wrote:
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> But I still maintain that NO software should cause unrequested
> dialups, I'm sorry if you don't agree. I don't accept that it is
> beyond the realms of possibility to only perform such checks if it
> doesn't cause a dialup.
Peter S., the IPNR author, gets this type of
Neat trick. I wrote one of these in the prehistoric days of Interdata
and 5mb disk drives.
Joy Richards wrote:
>
> I've been working with VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/) and would like to
> ask if it's been evaluated with Retrospect in mind.
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I've learn one main thing about using Retrospect over the last ?12?
years. It will find defective hardware. Start with the SCSI cables. SCSI
termination. Move it to another machine. Or the drive may be going bad.
You didn't mention which exact model of drive you were using.
Marty James wrote:
>
> I answered my own questions from some experimentation. Snapshots are lost
> when transferring StorageSets. But now I realize that the bigger problem is
> that if I create CD-ROMs for the client, they can't be read without a CD-R
> unit, which the client doesn't have. ...
CD-Rs written by a C
New Dell Dimension Tower.
CD RW drive.
In hardware properties it is listed as a Sony CD-RW CRX140E Firmware 1.0n
Travan Tape drive.
Properties show Seagate STT2A Firmware 8.43
Will Retrospect Express for Windows support either or both of these as
backup devices?
Thanks
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It likely shows up with only those file types because they were
installed or optimized to be next to each other and that's the area
with the media failure.
Norton and it's cousins are not where near comprehensive in disk
testing. They do a reasonable job but disk failures can manifest
themselves
When doing a backup with a DDS3 tape it should handle 12 gig
uncompressed or
> 24 gig compressed. When it gets to 12 Retrospect is asking for another tape.
> I even tried to select choices for software compression but since drive has hardware
> Retrospect will use that. The manual says that
Actually this allows me to attach the tape drive to the power plug on
the back of the CPU so it shuts down with the system. Without the wait
it will power it off DURING the rewind.
Thomas Myers wrote:
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> This is a good example of when to use the asynchronous scsi calls. While the call
>complet
> I have a need to backup about 10 GB of data (that's allowing for plenty of
> expansion and incrementals since the client has only 3GB after compression
> right now). I'm looking at DAT DDS-3, like the ClubMac 12-24GB for $820,
> though I've not had any experience with it. I haven't had much lu
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