Re: Silly Newbie Questions

2000-08-10 Thread Keepsake
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

Re: Newcomer Questions

2000-08-10 Thread Matt Barkdull
* 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

Re: Newcomer Questions

2000-08-10 Thread Jon Gardner
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

Network communication failed - a hint

2000-08-10 Thread Owen Watson
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

Re: freezes in Mac while backing up....

2000-08-10 Thread Matthew Tevenan
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

Re: Strange behavior when restoring to entire disk

2000-08-10 Thread Michael McLean
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

Re: NT Backup Failing

2000-08-10 Thread Matthew Tevenan
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

Another new guys

2000-08-10 Thread Francois Pepin
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