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
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
I can't seem to find any documentation on how to have tapes automatically
erased when a script starts. Right now the backup script requests new media
names "xxx" or erased. How can I set up my backup script to automatically
erase a tape? I do full backups to a different tape every day and want to
On 2/20/2001 6:45 AM, "Nicholas Froome" wrote:
We have 519's like a rash when backing up over a mixed 10/100 network using
3Com SuperStack 10/100 autoswitching hubs. Backup server is a beige G3 266
tower with a DDS-2 DAT drive.
Take a look at the autosensing on the Macs. There is an update
