ARCserve vs Retrospect Server Backup

2001-03-07 Thread Tom Roth
I've been using ARCserve for many years to backup my NT 4.0 Server and NT Workstations and long time ago to backup a Novell server. For the Mac side of things though I've always preferred and used Retrospect. I prefer Retrospect because it's much easier to install, use and maintain than

Re: ARCserve vs Retrospect Server Backup

2001-03-07 Thread Jim Cobb
I am using Retro Windows to backup a HP LH4 NT4 server with no problems. I cannot upgrade to the latest version (5.15) as for some reason the support for the HP DLT drive was dropped in that version. But 5.11 seems to be running with no problems so it's no big deal. A big dissapointment is the

Re: ARCserve vs Retrospect Server Backup

2001-03-07 Thread Tom Roth
Jim Cobb wrote: I am using Retro Windows to backup a HP LH4 NT4 server with no problems. I cannot upgrade to the latest version (5.15) as for some reason the support for the HP DLT drive was dropped in that version. Jim, Appreciate your comments. Which HP DLT drive is that? We're

Re: ARCserve vs Retrospect Server Backup

2001-03-07 Thread Ben Eastwood
I have lots to comment on this thread! I Love Retro and ditched Arcserve for Retro about six months ago. I had used it for years to back up Macs, and now I'm using it for about ten NT servers, Including one that has over 160 GB of Drive space, a couple that run MS SQL Server 7, and a Lotus Notes

Re: ARCserve vs Retrospect Server Backup

2001-03-07 Thread matt barkdull
My department has two DLT4000 drives, one connected to a Mac and the other to a PC. The one connected to the PC is an autochanger. Both work flawlessly with the current versions of Retrospect and OS's on the machines. We switched from Arcserve on the PC to Retrospect and have never looked

Re: ARCserve vs Retrospect Server Backup

2001-03-07 Thread Ben Eastwood
David- Are you also using Open File Manager, and if so does it work OK in Win2k with Services for Mac? ( I know this is not really a retrospect issue, but not totally offtopic..) -- Ben Eastwood IT Manager wilweb.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Kraut, David" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Retro

2001-03-07 Thread John Martinez
Hello, I am running Retrospect to backup about 16GB. I want to do the following: Nightly complete backup. Use a different tape each night. Setup: Win2K server, Retrospect, 6 slot HP tape drive. Retrospect keeps wanting to use the same tape each night and I have to change a setting manually and

Re: ARCserve vs Retrospect Server Backup

2001-03-07 Thread Irena Solomon
Hi all, Note that Retrospect is able to back up *most* open files. Most database files though will be inaccessible to other application while they are in use by the database. Regards, Irena From: Ben Eastwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ARCserve vs Retrospect Server Backup David- Are

Re: Retro

2001-03-07 Thread Eric Ullman
Hi John, I'm trying to understand something. Can you tell me *why* you want to perform a complete backup every night? Why not incrementals? Thanks! Eric Ullman Dantz Development John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running Retrospect to backup about 16GB. I want to do the

Re: Retro

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Stevens
on 3/7/01 4:04 PM, "Eric Ullman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, I'm trying to understand something. Can you tell me *why* you want to perform a complete backup every night? Why not incrementals? Thanks! Eric Ullman Dantz Development In my case, for Clear Ink, I built a system

trying to get outlook 2000 to quit

2001-03-07 Thread Michael Kennard
Guys, I have tried following the docs, renamed my script, place it in the correct folders, used the quit outlook script. I know some of you have been talking about Open File Manager but I was looking at a simple method for backing up outlook on the PeeCee for the moment. Has anyone

Re: Retro

2001-03-07 Thread matt barkdull
Well, comments first, solution second. Comments -- I personally use full backup on weekends and incrementals through a week. If you are dealing with single large files that change daily, then an incremental would do wonderful. (Yep, I too have a

Running out of space

2001-03-07 Thread Gordon Thorogood
Hi guys I'm running a SONY TSL-S7000 that takes 7 120m dat tapes and I'm running out of room, damn these new huge hard disks. It's sitting on a Power Mac 7200/120 does anyone have any suggestions that might get me out of my bind of diminishing backup space. Cheers Gordon. --