Re: Silly Newbie Questions
Ed Hintz wrote: Being that OS X has a rather incestuous relationship with NetBSD, and that Dantz is publicly working on OS X support, 'tis but a small step to NBSD and OBSD... One would hope such a step would take place, to be sure... Actually, it is FreeBSD that Apple has utilized for OS X: http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html Of course, I believe a reasonably bright programmer could create a cross Un*x platform solution, so it really would just be one product for Linix/BSD. I know if I get my way to set up an OpenBSD server, I'd love to have Retrospect backing it up. -- Eric Zylstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newcomer Questions
* DAT Tape drive - DDS3 or DDS4 attached to a PowerMac 7300, probably Sony (or LaCie which I think uses a Sony mechanism), no particular reason to go with Sony. * Retrospect 4.3 with clients on each of the Macs. I've had a lot of problems with the Tape changer put out by Sony. The one I have is 8 tapes (or 7+cleaning, but Retrospect for Mac doesn't support cleaning tape!!) I use to back up about 60 Macs using two DDS3 tape changers by Sony. That got to be way to much of a burden because of tape hassles, Tape Changer problems. I used nothing but Sony tapes in these units as the Maxell, HP, and other brands had an average tape failure of 1 in 8. Even with Retrospect set on "Skip bad media" it didn't work 100% My solution was to get a single Quantum 7000 DLT. Bang for the buck, this drive has been working for me for over a year and I've never had a problem related to the drive or any of the tapes. I've restored data several times as well to both Macs and NT machines. All of them worked without a flaw. I currently only backup about 25 machines every night. Our department probably has about 10 of the DAT tape drives sitting around now because they don't work properly. I know that two of the tape changers are dead and would cost $700 to fix, and the other two are only being used for single machine backups now. We got a DLT tape changer that cost a small fortune, but I think in the 2 years it has been operating, it has already paid for itself. It is connected to an NT box and except for Adminstrative problems with getting the right software, it has been flawless as well. (They started with some other over priced software and it was very hard to tell if it was even working, but now use Retrospect) BTW - in all, our department owns 6 of the Sony Tape Changers. 2 I know for sure are dead, 2 are being used, and the other 2 are on a shelf, I don't know status. We also owned two HP 18000, 6 tape tape changers. Those both work and are now doing single NT Server backup, directly connected to the NT server. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newcomer Questions
on 8/9/2000 9:55 PM, Adrian Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * DAT Tape drive - DDS3 or DDS4 attached to a PowerMac 7300, probably Sony (or LaCie which I think uses a Sony mechanism), no particular reason to go with Sony. * Retrospect 4.3 with clients on each of the Macs. I'd start off with an Ecrix VXA drive instead...it'll easily hold all of your data on one tape with room for the probable expansion you mentioned, and it's cheaper than a DDS4. 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 * Hip 979.229.4323 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]
Network communication failed - a hint
I had a client that was showing up as "nothing in the container" and "network communication failed" when you went into the Remotes browser. I checked on the client, and what he'd done was put the whole hard disk as a private area (by mistake). I checked the docs, and a cursory glance didn't reveal this as a posible cause of the error messages. Over to you, Dantz! -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freezes in Mac while backing up....
Title: Re: freezes in Mac while backing up Andrew, If this works with extensions off, you apparently have solved half the problem--extensions conflict. I'm not sure how you mean this has not worked. It's extensions, you just have to figure out which ones. See the Retrospect 4.2 User's Guide, p. 209, under Mac OS System Software Issues, for help with extensions troubleshooting. You could also consider a third-party package like Conflict Catcher, but the old-fashioned manual way should be adequate. Of course, if you have questions, please call us. Matthew Tevenan Technical Support Specialist Dantz Development Corporation 925.253.3050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Andrew Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: retro-talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:48:42 -0700 To: retro-talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: freezes in Mac while backing up Hello, this is my first posting to this mail list. I have recently purchased Retrospect Workgroup Backup 4.3 to backup a G3 server onto a Seagate Scorpion 24 (STD224000N-SB) tape drive, and I have only one problem with it The backup run of any script ( or any backup attempt at all) will freeze at a random point during execution, with the software running and the tape drive read light off, and remain so forever. If the system is loaded without extensions, everything works fine, the script run perfectly. The obvious problem I have been trying to fix is some sort of conflict with the extensions, and I have been removing ones from the extensions folder and disabling them to attempt to find the one or ones causing the problem. This has not worked, and I am honestly stumped. Anyone have any ideas? -Andrew Stein
Re: Strange behavior when restoring to entire disk
on 8/4/00 5:07 PM, Michael Gaines at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is why is Retrospect incorrectly reporting/calculating the space requirement of the data during the restore process? It appeared to correctly calculate the amount of data (~840MB) when I did a test backup of the newly restored partition. I had a similar problem and it turns out that I had forgotten to format the "new" drive with HFS+ and the different minimum file sizes were the problem. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NT Backup Failing
Cory, I realize that 'communication error' is supposed to indicate a disconnect between the backup machine and the backup device but backups from a Mac running Retrospect client to this same machine and drive succeeds just fine. That's basically what this error means, even if the drive works OK elsewhere. Sounds like this PC/drive combination is having problems, especially with the hanging problem. Off the top of my head: Update SCSI card drivers. Uninstall any extraneous drivers Windows or other software may have installed. Make sure ASPI is installed by running ASPICHK (installed into the Retrospect Program Files directory). Try a different tape in your drive. Try the drive connected to a different PC with a different card. If these don't help, please call us. Matthew Tevenan Technical Support Specialist Dantz Development Corporation 925.253.3050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Cory Rau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:51:00 -0400 To: retro-talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NT Backup Failing Though I'm new to this list, I've been using many flavors of Retrospect for a long time but have never encountered the problem I'm having now. I've got Retrospect 5.11 installed on an NT Workstation machine (sp 6a) and Retrospect client (most recent version downloaded from the Dantz web site yesterday) on an NT Server (sp 5) file server (all Intel-based logic boards). We have a 10Base-T network which runs great in every respect. I've been using this basic configuration for a long time but recently, the parallel port on the machine running Retrospect took a dirt nap. No problem, I thought, I can install this HP Colorado Travan External 8MB (parallel port connect) tape drive on another machine and just run the backup from there. Well, now, whenever we try to backup the NT Server, Retrospect on the workstation freezes up at varying points in the backup. Many times, I get a communication error (I believe it's -102). Other times, Retrospect just hangs and the drive ceases all activity. My only choice at that point is to bring up the task manager and force the task to end. I've updated all appropriate drivers and respective Retrospect products on all machines and rebooted them all. No go. I realize that 'communication error' is supposed to indicate a disconnect between the backup machine and the backup device but backups from a Mac running Retrospect client to this same machine and drive succeeds just fine. Admittedly, the backup on the Mac side is far smaller than the one on the NT Server but still... Anyone experienced this before? I swear I have but I can't remember for the life of me how we got it solved. We've been running with this configuration successfully for over a year. All machines seem to be in tip-top shape. The NT Server runs like a champ 24/7. Thanks in advance for any help...I'm anxious to stop this file-transfer type manual backup. Regards, | Cory Rau | | Stimpson Co., Inc. | | 631-472-2000 x 306 | | [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]
Another new guys
Hopefully those questions won't be all too out of the way for now, please tell tell if that's the case. Has anyone had any experience with the Onstream tapes? I managed to convince the people that we needed a backup system, and they're rather get a less expensive drive. I know it's not always the brightest idea to try to save a few bucks where backups are concerned, but I'd like to have more information on there. Did anyone ever created an applescript or something (we're on Macs here) to receive mails about the status of the backups? That would make administration a bit easier for us if it could do that, but I couldn't see it in the documentation. Also, is there any advantage of doing backups through an AppleTalk network rather than a TCP/IP one, since the latter is usually faster? Thanks for your help, Francois Pepin -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
