RE: Retrospect and Yamaha 6416S CD-RW drive
I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but I too have heard from Yamaha (Tom Bailey, 1/31/2000) that "Dantz Software is testing the firmware update." Unless I missed something Neither Matthew Tevenan nor other Dantz spokesperson has indicated this to be the case. Of course they haven't said it's BS either. I guess I'd like to ask if Dantz can indicate if there's any truth to the statement made by Tom Bailey. Even if Dantz isn't responsible for the performance of the drive, has Yamaha provided a firmware update for testing? Brooks Peters(301) 227-1243 (voice) NSWC - Carderock Division(301) 227-5930 (fax) Code 5500 (Bldg. 18, Rm. 127)mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9500 MacArthur Blvd. West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700 -- From: Matthew Tevenan Reply To: retro-talk Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 11:33 AM To: retro-talk Subject: Re: Retrospect and Yamaha 6416S CD-RW drive Moe, Dantz has verified that there is a bug in the firmware of the Yamaha 6416 CD-RW drive. While we have notified Yamaha of this bug, until Yamaha releases a fix for this problem, we can no longer officially support backup to the Yamaha 6416 CD-RW drive with Retrospect or Retrospect Express. The bug will cause the drive to intermittently return error 100 (illegal command) when used with Retrospect on slower Macintosh and PC models. We have some suggestions to try to work around this problem: use a faster backup computer if there is one available, or try to increase the data rate by disabling software compression and minimizing external activity during backup. Though you can make Retrospect recognize this drive by purchasing an upgrade to Retrospect 4.2, you may see the error when backing up to this drive on your Mac. The only computers I have not seen this error occur on are Power Mac G3s and G4s, though even these fast machines are not guaranteed to work correctly with the drive. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you. You have been added to our list of customers with this problem and will be notified when newer firmware from Yamaha is available. We're hoping to receive a resolution to this soon! Regards, Matthew Tevenan Technical Support Specialist Dantz Development Corporation 925.253.3050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC
Hello, I am wanting to back up FileMaker Pro 5 databases that are hosted on a WINNT machine. I was curious as to some other people's strategies. I am running into the "file open" problem. We are using retrospect 4.2 Thanks! Aaron Kopel Systems Support Greenlee School of Journalism [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC
on 2/25/2000 4:33 PM, Aaron Kopel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wanting to back up FileMaker Pro 5 databases that are hosted on a WINNT machine. I was curious as to some other people's strategies. I am running into the "file open" problem. We are using retrospect 4.2 Set up a server script in FileMaker Pro to backup the databases just before the Retrospect backup is supposed to happen. Retro will be able to read the backup files, since they won't be open. Jon L. Gardner '89, Computer Systems Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas AM University Dept. of Food Services http://food.tamu.edu/ Tel 979.458.1839 Fax 979.845.2157 ICQ 34792860 PGP public key available at http://food.tamu.edu/pgp/jon.html -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: my @$$ is saved
Woo hoo! Thanks, Luke. It always helps to hear *why* we do what we do. Craig -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Luke Jaeger Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:31 PM To: retro-talk Subject: my @$$ is saved Just another ordinary day at the office. A user lost slightly upwards of 1 GB of data off her hard drive due to catastrophically munged volume structures (this was a new one on me - below a certain level, everything that was in a folder disappeared; only 100 MB worth of bare files were left!) Fortunately her drive was backed up to tape last night, and the whole thing is being restored as I write this. Thanks Dantz! -- top of the world, Luke Jaeger, Technology Coordinator Disney Magazine Publishing Northampton, Massachusetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any opinions expressed in this message are my own and may not represent the opinions of Disney Publishing, etc etc etc. * -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my @$$ is saved
Oh well, if you like thathere's mine: When my NT Terminal Server/Metaframe Setup went south during a CPU upgrade, for almost a month I was in NT heck, Compaq heck, almost nothing was coming back straight, service pack 4 was killing *everything*! (for perspective, the registry on this box is now at a point that it is *too big* to make a rescue disk. rdisk fails, because it can't get it on a floppy.) The ONLY thing I could count on, was that each and every time I needed to redo the *full* restore, Retrospect would perform flawlessly. I ended up rebuilding that fershlugginer system 25 times in a month, and each time Retrospect came through. you guys *totally* rock! and your MacWorld parties kick ass too! john From: "Craig Isaacs" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:19:11 -0800 To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: my @$$ is saved Woo hoo! Thanks, Luke. It always helps to hear *why* we do what we do. Craig -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Luke Jaeger Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:31 PM To: retro-talk Subject: my @$$ is saved Just another ordinary day at the office. A user lost slightly upwards of 1 GB of data off her hard drive due to catastrophically munged volume structures (this was a new one on me - below a certain level, everything that was in a folder disappeared; only 100 MB worth of bare files were left!) Fortunately her drive was backed up to tape last night, and the whole thing is being restored as I write this. Thanks Dantz! -- top of the world, Luke Jaeger, Technology Coordinator Disney Magazine Publishing Northampton, Massachusetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any opinions expressed in this message are my own and may not represent the opinions of Disney Publishing, etc etc etc. * -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC
Another option is to use a product called Open File Manager from St Bernard Software (www.stbernard.com). Backs up all open files no matter what they are. OFM assentially takes a snapshop of the open file/s then deletes the snapshot after they are backup up. This product even can backup the NT SAM files and an Exchange Post Office while open. It works very well and takes little resources. I use it with all my NT Servers. In my office we run a Filemaker 5 database for customer tracking and billing. OFM handles it with no problem. So nice not to worry that a database or any other file is open. Version 6.2 of OFM does work with Retrospect. Adam Cohen Adam Cohen President CyberDoctors, Inc. 47 Maple Street Suite 103 Burlington VT 05401 (802) 860-2430 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cyber-doctors.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Gardner Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 6:11 PM To: retro-talk Subject: Re: Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC on 2/25/2000 4:33 PM, Aaron Kopel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wanting to back up FileMaker Pro 5 databases that are hosted on a WINNT machine. I was curious as to some other people's strategies. I am running into the "file open" problem. We are using retrospect 4.2 Set up a server script in FileMaker Pro to backup the databases just before the Retrospect backup is supposed to happen. Retro will be able to read the backup files, since they won't be open. Jon L. Gardner '89, Computer Systems Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas AM University Dept. of Food Services http://food.tamu.edu/ Tel 979.458.1839 Fax 979.845.2157 ICQ 34792860 PGP public key available at http://food.tamu.edu/pgp/jon.html -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC
Adam's right--St. Bernard's Open File Manager may be an option for some. However, Open File Manager only works with Retrospect 5.0 for Windows, not Retrospect 4.2 for Macintosh. Matthew Tevenan Technical Support Specialist Dantz Development Corporation 925.253.3050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Adam Cohen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:13:43 -0500 To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC Another option is to use a product called Open File Manager from St Bernard Software (www.stbernard.com). Backs up all open files no matter what they are. OFM assentially takes a snapshop of the open file/s then deletes the snapshot after they are backup up. This product even can backup the NT SAM files and an Exchange Post Office while open. It works very well and takes little resources. I use it with all my NT Servers. In my office we run a Filemaker 5 database for customer tracking and billing. OFM handles it with no problem. So nice not to worry that a database or any other file is open. Version 6.2 of OFM does work with Retrospect. Adam Cohen Adam Cohen President CyberDoctors, Inc. 47 Maple Street Suite 103 Burlington VT 05401 (802) 860-2430 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cyber-doctors.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Gardner Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 6:11 PM To: retro-talk Subject: Re: Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC on 2/25/2000 4:33 PM, Aaron Kopel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wanting to back up FileMaker Pro 5 databases that are hosted on a WINNT machine. I was curious as to some other people's strategies. I am running into the "file open" problem. We are using retrospect 4.2 Set up a server script in FileMaker Pro to backup the databases just before the Retrospect backup is supposed to happen. Retro will be able to read the backup files, since they won't be open. Jon L. Gardner '89, Computer Systems Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas AM University Dept. of Food Services http://food.tamu.edu/ Tel 979.458.1839 Fax 979.845.2157 ICQ 34792860 PGP public key available at http://food.tamu.edu/pgp/jon.html -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
