Compression and speed
Client licenses are now stored in Retrospect's License Manager. If you had old-style Retrospect Clients with activator codes, then the License Manager automatically knows how many client licenses (i.e., a 10-pack) you already have. When you forget a client computer, the License Manager makes that license available for a new client system to be logged in. To add more Retrospect Clients, you can now just enter a license code into License Manager. So you said and so I hoped it to be. I had free numbers but still two computers demanded the same serial. It's solved by using "a poor mans installer", simpley copying the settings from the old machine and re installing the client on one machine and now it works. --- I tried to back up without any security or compression, still I just got some 67 MB/min at the most and I think that's too slow. Or rather, I expected it to be faster, but it's OK. I truelly don't care that much if it takes 2 or 4 hours as long as it's working. All our computers are named PPC_01, PPC_02, iBook_01, PC_01 etc and they doen't say Boss' HD or similar. Second you would need a VXA drive to extract the data so I think 128 Bit encryption on top of that is really too much. Yesterday when I clicked the hardware compression, is wasn't shown in the status window, but maybe it's working anyway? Compression isna't that efficiant anyway, I get some 10 to 15%. (One can ask how the can sell tapes that will store 66 GB? That demands a compression of 50% witch for me seems more or less theoretic...) Did I miss someting here? thanx, / jakob -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Retrospect and Quantum Snap Server / again [x-post toMac-Managers list]
I am testing a Snap Server loaned by Quantum next week. I would appreciate anyone with experience of backing these up using Retrospect emailing me their observations. I will summarise later to this list. Specifically I'd like to know: * what machine the Snap is mounted on for backup * OS of that machine * whether mounted via AppleTalk or TCP/IP * size of Snap and amount of data * any problems observed during Recycle and/or Normal backups Regards -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compression and speed
Thanx for your reply! The passwords are not written on a pice of paper next to the server... When it comes to speed, one thing hit me, I use the internal SCSI-1 socket. Maybe a SCSI-2 card wold speed up performance. Thank you for your advice. They are really appreachiated. thanx, / jakob -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compression and speed
With all this talk of compression, speed, different drives, etc., would it be possible for someone at Dantz to set up a database that Retrospect users could contribute to with the purpose of documenting the different systems and their performance? At a minimum, it could include backup computer type, backup device used, connection type (SCSI, USB, Firewire), typical backup speeds as reported in the log file, and most importantly, footnotes to problems/solutions that people have tried or used to improve their own backup. As an example, I'm currently fighting the problem of several backup clients which run faster via Appletalk than TCP/IP. Also, I'd like to know, as someone else mentioned, would it be advantageous to get a SCSI-2 or SCSI-3 card, or am I limited by the speed of the backup device itself? Just my $0.02. Jeffry C. Nichols, PhD Instructor/Lab Coordinator Rice University Biochemistry Department Houston, Texas Phone: 713-348-2660 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Retrospect running on servers
Phillip and Rhona said: We are also running an Appleshare server and Retrospect on the same machine - ... This configuration has been very stable for us. I can think of a number of extremely good reasons not to run Retrospect on a fileserver: 1 - you can't work on fine-tuning the setup without prejudicing the server 2 - the server is less stable 3 - you can't easily rename removeable media for use by the backup You wouldn't use a fileserver to burn CDs, so why use it to copy data for a backup? Until you've been in the position of losing the entire contents of a client's fileserver, just because Retrospect was on that machine **, you won't appreciate what a bad idea it is. I now won't work on backup systems on servers, and would never recommend a server hosts backup or even removebale media drives. Regards ** This was not a Retrospect problem; the file server drive had been formatted with Hammer Utilities, and had erroneously been setup as being a removeable media drive rather than a fixed hard drive. Whilst testing the backup, the fileserver volume then appeared as a target volume to backup to - and the inevitable happened. The file server volume was selected as the target drive, the backup was started, and the drive was wiped clean. This was a once-in-a-lifetime situation. But, of course, once is enough. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
force a tape to exit the drive...
I ran a script earlier today as I had to pause. I thought everything was in order but now, just before leaving for home, I noticed the drive is acting very strange. Led #2 on my VXA drive is blinking but it never stops. Blinking means that the tape is loading but does that load take like 30 minutes or more?? any advice appreachiated... / jakob - i promise, next summer i won't buy anything... :-/ -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd error message
I've done some reconfiguring of our backups, and I'm getting an error message that I can't find listed anywhere. The error number is -33 (directory full). It also says it can't save the snapshot. I've got tons of disk space (this is a HD file), so I don't think that's the issue, unless somehow the snapshot is so large that it can't save it? Help? -- Julia Frizzell User Consultant/Analyst The Education Alliance Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University 222 Richmond Street, Suite 300 Providence, Rhode Island 02903-4226 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 401.274.9548 x311 or 800.521.9550 x311 401.421.7650 (fax) http://www.lab.brown.edu -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: force a tape to exit the drive...
A blinking LED may indicate trouble in a drive as well. Check your documentation. It should tell you exactly what the blinking light means. Usually if it is blinking that long, it is not a good sign. brian --- Original Message --- jakob krabbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:58:59 +0200 -- I ran a script earlier today as I had to pause. I thought everything was in order but now, just before leaving for home, I noticed the drive is acting very strange. Led #2 on my VXA drive is blinking but it never stops. Blinking means that the tape is loading but does that load take like 30 minutes or more?? any advice appreachiated... / jakob - i promise, next summer i won't buy anything... :-/ -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd error message
there is a limit to the number of nested directories an files you can have...and it depends on your operating system. Apple's TIL has info on the max number of directories in a tree...I can't remember off the top of my head. HTH - Original Message - From: "Julia Frizzell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:20 PM Subject: Odd error message I've done some reconfiguring of our backups, and I'm getting an error message that I can't find listed anywhere. The error number is -33 (directory full). It also says it can't save the snapshot. I've got tons of disk space (this is a HD file), so I don't think that's the issue, unless somehow the snapshot is so large that it can't save it? Help? -- Julia Frizzell User Consultant/Analyst The Education Alliance Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University 222 Richmond Street, Suite 300 Providence, Rhode Island 02903-4226 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 401.274.9548 x311 or 800.521.9550 x311 401.421.7650 (fax) http://www.lab.brown.edu -- -- 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: Odd error message
Julia, This can be a problem with file backup sets. As you know, a file backup set is basically just a Macintosh file with all of your files condensed into it. As such, it has a data fork and a resource fork. The resource fork stores the catalog of the data, including a record of every single file as well as the Snapshot of every volume you back up to it. It has a 16 MB size limit. When it reaches this limit, it reports that the directory is full. What I'm guessing has happened is that you've been backing up so many files on so many volumes that the resource fork is just full. This can happen even if you've been backing up using a selector to filter out files, if the volumes the files came from have many files. Retrospect saves the Snapshot of the entire volume--including a record of every file--even if it wasn't backed up in its entirety. My recommendations are to either define a Subvolume (see p. 168 of the Retrospect 4.2 User's Guide) or several that contain the files you want to back up from each client, which will result in smaller Snapshots. Or if you don't care about the Snapshots at all, turn off this feature. To do this, go into your script, click Options, choose the Catalog option group, then uncheck "Save source Snapshots..." Regards, Matthew Tevenan Technical Support Specialist Dantz Development Corporation 925.253.3050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Julia Frizzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:20:57 -0400 To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Odd error message I've done some reconfiguring of our backups, and I'm getting an error message that I can't find listed anywhere. The error number is -33 (directory full). It also says it can't save the snapshot. I've got tons of disk space (this is a HD file), so I don't think that's the issue, unless somehow the snapshot is so large that it can't save it? Help? -- Julia Frizzell User Consultant/Analyst The Education Alliance Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University 222 Richmond Street, Suite 300 Providence, Rhode Island 02903-4226 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 401.274.9548 x311 or 800.521.9550 x311 401.421.7650 (fax) http://www.lab.brown.edu -- -- 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: Odd error message
if your HD file is near 2 GB in size, that's your problem. The limit is 2Gb for storage set files, per Retrospect's manual. Cesar At 01:20 PM 7/13/00 -0400, you wrote: I've done some reconfiguring of our backups, and I'm getting an error message that I can't find listed anywhere. The error number is -33 (directory full). It also says it can't save the snapshot. I've got tons of disk space (this is a HD file), so I don't think that's the issue, unless somehow the snapshot is so large that it can't save it? Help? -- Julia Frizzell User Consultant/Analyst The Education Alliance Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University 222 Richmond Street, Suite 300 Providence, Rhode Island 02903-4226 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 401.274.9548 x311 or 800.521.9550 x311 401.421.7650 (fax) http://www.lab.brown.edu -- -- 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: Is 4.2 compatible with OS 8.6 and ASIP 6.2
And in case you're wondering who turned on that 'temp memory' setting when you didn't even know it existed - Apparently the 'temp memory' setting was recommended a couple of versions ago; since then it has become preferable to leave it off. If you upgraded your copy of Retrospect from an earlier version this pref may have persisted. A little relic from the days of the Apple Workgroup Server 95, when A/UX still walked the earth 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. * -- From: Eric Zylstra Reply To: retro-talk Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:45 PM To: retro-talk Subject: Re: Is 4.2 compatible with OS 8.6 and ASIP 6.2 Brad Suinn, an ASIP enginner for Apple, has compiled a list of advice for making your ASIP Server more stable. Look in the ASIP list archives, if you can, and look for recent messages from Brad. In the advice compiled (from a variety of sources) there is the technique to stop Retrospect from using temp memory, which seems to cause problems with ASIP's use of Temp memory for it's cache. This seems a likely culprit for many of the ASIP/Retrospect issues. Eric Zylstra [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: RE: force a tape to exit the drive...
A drive can go bad at any time for any reason. You are not alone in this. Hardware fails. If you are having trouble with it, get it fixed and move on. Brian --- Original Message --- jakob krabbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:02:42 +0200 -- At 10:21 2000-07-13 -0700, you wrote: A blinking LED may indicate trouble in a drive as well. Check your documentation. It should tell you exactly what the blinking light means. Usually if it is blinking that long, it is not a good sign. Gee... The drive is working, the tape is rewinding itself after waiting a long while and pressing eject. I paused the backup, ok I'm sorry, I won't do that again, but does the drive really need to do this with me? I can still count the number of backups that has been done... / jakob -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
