Re: Retrospect Demo

2000-07-11 Thread John Gee
The problem I am having is, the Mac volumes cannot be seen on the NT. There are two different clients for the Mac, one for AppleTalk and one for TCP/IP. If you have the TCP/IP client installed, then the NTServer should be able to back up your Macs with no further software required. From the

RE: tape strategy question

2000-07-11 Thread jakob krabbe
That sounded like a great suggestion! I'll look in to that after vaccation. To my case is that we also have some portables. I also have an 18 GB drive as we used to backup stuff with before we bought the tapes. Maybe I can mirror the portables to the drive during the day and copy the drive

RE: tape strategy question

2000-07-11 Thread Jaeger, Luke
that's why you have the regular script run first, to clear out the tape. Otherwise I agree, it just keeps growing. do the laptops go home every single night, or can the users be persuaded to leave them overnight occasionally? you could write different backup server scripts to give the laptops

Re: Retrospect Demo

2000-07-11 Thread Jay
I thank you for responding to my message. On Dantz's demo website, it claims "NOTE: Trial versions are currently available only for the Windows platform." Does this mean that we are incapable of adding Mac volumes to Retrospect Backup Server without already having a third party software like

Re: Retrospect Demo

2000-07-11 Thread Matthew Tevenan
Jay, Feel free to install client software on Macs on your network. You can log in up to 100 clients (PC or Mac) with the trial version of Retrospect Backup. PCMacLAN is NOT required as long as all clients have been configured for TCP/IP. Regards, Matthew Tevenan Technical Support Specialist