Retrospect Error Messages

2000-08-09 Thread Ben Mihailescu
Hello all, I run a nightly backup using Retrospect 5.11 on a Win2k Server machine (member server only). I backup a mixed (Mac and Win) bunch of clients. Generally backups are going good (no major errors), yet I get sometime error 1017 - insufficient permissions on some of the Mac files. Nothing

Silly Newbie Questions

2000-08-09 Thread Derek J. Balling
OK, the Hardware Compatibility List says "All HP DAT Drives" for both Mac and Windows, but THEN goes on to enumerate a bunch of HP DAT Drives. Is it safe to still say "any HP DAT Drive", or is it just the enumerated HP DAT Drives that are acceptable? Secondly, is anyone using Retrospect to

Re: Silly Newbie Questions

2000-08-09 Thread Derek J. Balling
Couldn't you, in theory, just share out "/" as an appletalk/smb share (platform-dependent), and tell Retrospect to back up that network share? Then, in theory, if you had to restore it, you reinstall, share it out and let it dump it back out on the share. The only potential problem I could

Re: Silly Newbie Questions

2000-08-09 Thread Edmund A. Hintz
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... Regards, Ed Hintz Geek Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: "Derek

Re: Silly Newbie Questions

2000-08-09 Thread Doug Clements
At 01:38 PM 8/9/2000, you wrote: At 12:42 PM -0700 8/9/00, Doug Clements wrote: What don't you like about my way of creating a tar file on a mounted NT share? It seems to work rather well, and makes for an easy recovery. I recognize that it'll work great, I just prefer not to have to do the

RE: Newcomer Questions

2000-08-09 Thread Rob Davies
Title: RE: Newcomer Questions I'd probably go DDS-4, then buy a second DDS-4 unit when needed, as you add more clients. Retro intelligently uses chained tape drives, writing to one, then the other. Use an incremental backup process. Recent previous Retro talks had discussions of relative