Re: Hard Drive Backup

[Patrick McClure]

On 10/2/2000 11:13 AM, Irena Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...

>Andrews answer is exactly right. In the destination selection window, create
>a new backup set. Set "storage Type" to File (Windows) or Macintosh File
>(Mac), name your backup set and click "New". In the next screen, navigate
>though until you are saving the file backup set on the external drive.
>Backups to this backup set will be incremental, and the file will grow
>accordingly as more sessions are added.

Thanks, guys, you are both correct. As an add-on I might mention that you 
still can set the backup to recycle so you won't get the bloating file 
problem.

Best

Patrick







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Hard Drive Backup

[Patrick McClure]

The the answer to the following FAQ from the Dantz website confuses me. I 
need to do a regular-style backup, not a disk copy, but the program won't 
let me select the hard disk as a destination. Surely, many people must 
doing this by now in the era of cheap hard disks. Can anyone help, or is 
this impossible at this time with Retrospect?

Thanks, Patrick



Entry:

Can Retrospect and Retrospect Express for the Macintosh back up to a hard 
disk



Response:

If all of your data will fit on a single hard disk, you can use the 
duplicate operation to copy your data in Finder format from one volume to 
another. 

All versions of Retrospect and Retrospect Express 4.3 or later will allow 
you to write data using a File Backup Set. 

File Backup Sets larger than 2 gigs must be saved to MacOS Extended 
volume running MacOS 9.x












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Re: G4 DVD RAM

[Patrick McClure]

On 5/19/2000 8:13 PM, Eric Prentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...

>Having grown weary of waiting for FireWire support for my fantom CDRW
>(Plextor) and also having the need for another machine I'm wondering if
>Retrospect will support the built-in DVD-RAM that ships with the G4.
>
>Is anyone using this as their backup solution?
>

Well, I bought that option with exactly your thought in mind, and 
although others may have had better experiences, I have been very 
disappointed. Backing up large amounts of data whether through Retrospect 
or the Finder have been EXTREMELY slow, and none of the tips that anyone 
has offered have worked out.

Having already popped for this setup, I too would be very interested in 
the methods being used by anyone who is having success.

Best

Patrick







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Re: DVD-RAM as backup media

[Patrick McClure]

On 2/22/2000 4:45 AM, Daniel Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...

>>I recently purchased a Mac G4/400 with the DVD-RAM option, hoping that 
>>this would be a simple backup solution.
>
>We did the same thing with a G3/300. Apple's IDE DVD-RAM drive has got to 
>be the slowest in existence. And DVD-TuneUp won't help -- Retrospect 
>reformats the DVD using Apple's driver before using it for backup.

Thanks, Daniel, it helps to know that its not something isolated. But 
this still leaves a couple of questions:

1. Does anyone know, or know how to get, the specs for these drives? 
Surely they can't be rated as low as 6mb / min.?

2. What is DVD-TuneUp? And might it help non-Retrospect Finder copy 
speeds?

Best

Patrick







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DVD-RAM as backup media

[Patrick McClure]

Hi

I recently purchased a Mac G4/400 with the DVD-RAM option, hoping that 
this would be a simple backup solution. I had become extremely bored with 
the sound of and skeptical of the quality of the Travan 4 (Seagate) tape 
backups I was using.

Things haven't worked out quite the way I imagined...it is verry 
slow, showing 6mb/min as a final transfer stat (disk copy method, 
slightly better for regular backup). You can imagine how long it takes to 
copy 2.5GB at that rate. What I don't know is whether this is actually 
the speed of the drive or whether some other problem exists in my system. 
I don't have any other kind of problem with speed or crashes or anything 
elsewhere on my system.

Is there anyone out there who has used DVD-RAM and can relate to me what 
I should be expecting in terms of transfer speeds? Or suggestions for 
improvement?

Thanks

Patrick







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