Back in November I started a thread on problems we were having
getting G4s to backup over our 10Mb Ethernet network...
Just to update everyone, we have found that switching the clients to
AppleTalk rather than TCP/IP has eliminated all the errors we were
experiencing (As suggested by Brooks Peters in the thread "G4
Client's OT Wiped Out by Backup via TCP/IP"). The backup is not as
quite as fast (say 40 MB/min vs 50) but it does work.
Now if we could just nail the problem we are still having with the
tape drive and 102 errors we would be all set...
Adrian
PS We have not tried any of the G4s with TCP/IP and OS9.1 yet. I
would be interesting to know if 9.1 fixed the problems but as it
ain't broke...
At 4:19 PM +1100 22/11/00, Adrian Smith wrote:
>Hi all,
> We are having problems backing up G4s over the network.
>Basically, they get part way through the backup and then Retrospect
>looses the connection. The problem seems to be at the G4 end as once
>this has happened they have lost network connectivity until the next
>restart (sleep and waking seems to restore it as well). This seems
>to be the problem that was addressed by the "Ethernet Update 1.0"
>and our network does seem to come close to the type of network
>described in the Apple TIL on the subject. HOWEVER, installing the
>Ethernet Update doesn't fix the problem, although it may have made
>it a little better (the backup SEEMS to get a bit further).
>
>So, does anyone know how complete a fix the Ethernet Update was? Are
>there reports of G4s still having network problems?
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround?
>
>Any other suggestions as to the cause? We have had zero problems
>backing up an iMac, a beigeG3 and an LCIII but the three G4s (and my
>Powerbook (firewire) which we just tested) seem to fail almost every
>time...
>
>Thanks
>Adrian
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