Workgroup of 15, VXA vs AIT vs DDS4

2000-01-16 Thread John Gee
technologies are for workgroup backups. AIT looks best for capacity and by reputation, but is expensive. VXA is aggressively priced, but I haven't heard much about them. -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting

Re: Troubleshooting Regcopy

2000-02-13 Thread John Gee
are nothing >in common that I'm aware of. I have this problem, but I also know that in my case the registry is already corrupt! :-( -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgram

Re: VXA?

2000-03-05 Thread John Gee
uters when we got the increased capacity with VXA, and switched to using Backup Server rather than Backup scripts. Backups are now easier to manage than before despite the increased volume. When I manage to fill up a tape I'll have some idea of the compression, but still doing incrementals to th

Re: Q.. Backup Solution for both Mac & NT Servers

2000-04-26 Thread John Gee
d hardware to read the backup (including drivers if appropriate). -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscr

Re: Experience with VXA drive Retro 4.2?

2000-05-25 Thread John Gee
>>> VXA: 44 MB/m (46 copy/42 compare) >>> DDS-2: 94 MB/m (60 copy/214 compare) For "ideal" backups to VXA across 100Mb ethernet from a fast client with large files, I see speeds like this: Completed: 211 files, 315.2 MB Performance: 123.6 MB/minute (122.0 copy,

Retrospect on Mac OS X (server)

2000-05-31 Thread John Gee
we pay money for client licences! :-) -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ar

Re: What's the consequence of a missing member?

2000-06-14 Thread John Gee
om scratch >the next time around? Yes. >What happens if the tape is later marked found? You may have backed up some files redundantly (since at the time, they were considered not backed up), but otherwise everything is back to just the same as before you set the

Re: Retrospect Demo

2000-07-11 Thread John Gee
the demo version might not.) -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:

Re: Aarrggh 519 error!

2000-07-20 Thread John Gee
rver enough that the network switch does not overload. Having just purchased a switch this week that works fine under light load, and fails under all forms of heavy load, it is an easy guess! :-( -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live

Re: Scripting within Retrospect.

2000-07-26 Thread John Gee
anyone have any ideas or sample scripts? The AppleScript Utilities folder in your Retrospect folder has some example scripts which will get you started if you are familiar with AppleScript. -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgr

RE: Stubbornly Invisible Client!

2000-07-30 Thread John Gee
t segments and was backed up using Retrospect client. (Which might or might not be dual-homed, excuse my ignorance.) -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... --

Re: Micompare errors with 4.3

2000-07-30 Thread John Gee
aven't been shut down.) -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archiv

Re: Backup gets stuck

2000-07-31 Thread John Gee
Make sure that "Pause in Background" is off and does not have a tick beside it. -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:[

Re: Strange behavior when restoring to entire disk

2000-08-06 Thread John Gee
ink there are similar advantages for FAT32 over FAT16, but take that with a grain of salt. -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:

Re: How'd this extra file get into backup?

2000-08-16 Thread John Gee
set, it may offer to restore it to effectively multiple locations. I am not sure if this explains what you are seeing. Have you got a copy of agtman15.pdf in the folders that were backed up? -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live

Re: OS9/TCP/Sonnet problem...

2000-08-16 Thread John Gee
have always managed to eventually find the cause of the problem Retrospect has exposed, but it isn't always convenient to track down these subtle problems right away, and it certainly hurts when Retrospect is (apparently) the only application affected by a problem. -- John Gee

Re: retrospect and filemaker

2000-10-03 Thread John Gee
nd use Retrospect to backup the copies. -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: AppleScript Email Notification using Eudora

2000-11-05 Thread John Gee
it to do something tell application "Eudora" blah end tell -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:

Re: turning windows client on/off via script

2000-11-26 Thread John Gee
likely, at the next reboot). > >It is possible to go to the Win client>Access and name these files as >private. That way they won't get accessed. The issue is probably the performance hit when the backup is running, rather than simultaneous access to the files. -- John Gee

Firewire VXA tape drive

2001-01-09 Thread John Gee
.) The last question might be the only one that can be answered for sure! -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: Firewire VXA tape drive

2001-01-12 Thread John Gee
ware specifics. Ecrix have responded to a separate question with "The difference in the two firewire drives is mostly cosmetic". Thanks Irena for the helpful comments on all my questions. -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New Zeal

Re: Anybody know the exact path/folder name for the Trash on PCs?

2001-01-22 Thread John Gee
) -- and over >multiple partitions? > >Thanks! (I'm sure I could figure this out, but if somebody >already did this, I'd be happy to take that info.) I test for enclosing folder name exactly matches "RECYCLED" or "RECYCLER", but I set it

Re: Mac OS 9.1 vs. Retro 4.3?

2001-02-01 Thread John Gee
Retrospect during the day, so different useage pattern. -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New ZealandProgrammers live in interesting times... -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscr

Re: Retro

2001-03-07 Thread John Gee
. (I only reset my backup sets about every three months. I run nightly incremental backups to whichever of three independent backup sets I happen to have in the tape drive. Backup Server is great!) -- John Gee[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dunedin, New Zealand