Re: Backup Problems

[Jeff Grossman]

I got a 40G Maxtor Firewire Drive.  I just got it yesterday, so not sure
about the whine yet.  But, it is a room which is not very quick anyway, so I
doubt I would hear it anyway.

I have a Lacie DDS-3 Tape Drive.  I have had it for at least a year now, and
it is working pretty well.  No complaints.

Jeff
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 Organization: CropCircle Research International
 Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:57:27 -0500
 To: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Backup Problems
 
 jeff -
 
 you're describing my soon-to-be situation to a 'T':  I'll be buying an
 EXTERNAL IEEE 30gig probably tomorrow, using it for backup of my G4/400
 AGP/9.0.4  --  I don't have a tape drive yet, but am plannng on buying
 one in the near future.
 
 questions:
 1) what kind of IEEE drive do you have?  So many brands:  Maxtor,
 Western Digital, EZQuest, IBM.  Is yrs QUIET (ie, it doesn't have a
 high-pitched whine that goes thru yr head and gives you a fever from the
 neck up), and is it reliable?
 
 2) what kind of tape backup system did you decide on?  are you happy
 with it?  is it reliable?  I'm leaning towards an HP DDS-3 or -4 ... IF
 it's compatible with Macs ... I'm not sure about this
 
 3) pls, if anyone writes to you privately, I'd appreciate getting a Fwd
 re: what the fix will be to get the Firewire drive synched-up with yr
 'puter.  (I figure the more info I have going in, the easier my own
 set-up ... I'm out here in the boonies, no helpers around at all ...)
 
 thanks kindly,
 
- ilyes



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Appletalk backup problems

[Todd Reed]

I've set up a new backup system for 25 workstations using a blue G3, 
an Ecrix drive and 100B-t ethernet.  All the systems on the LAN were 
backing up nicely except for one server, a blue/white G3 running 
Filemaker server 3.0.

For security reasons, this system was set up with the  Retrospect 
AppleTalk client, and IP was not loaded.

I noticed that the machine was backing up very slowly, the data 
getting backed up at about 6-7 megs a minute, unlike any other system 
on the LAN.

In order to resolve this problem, I loaded TCP/IP and gave the system 
a nonroutable IP address (192.168...) but Retrospect couldn't see the 
system. I thought Retrospect would address systems on different 
subnets (on the same cable), but consequently I guess that this was a 
mistaken notion. Anyway, it didn't work.

So, I reinstalled the Appletalk client. Now Retrospect wouldn't even 
see the server at all. Nothing I did would get the Retrospect server 
system to acknowledge the Filemaker server, even though I could see 
the system using MacPing or personal file sharing.

Finally I set up the system to be backed up using personal file 
sharing and got a gratifyingly high backup ratelike 60-70 MB/min.

I'm wondering what could be happening here. What would prevent 
Retrospect from seeing an Appletalk client on this network?

Todd Reed



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