Re: Network communication failed - a hint

2000-08-11 Thread Owen Watson
The "network communication failed" message was seen in the network browser Retro 4.3 Mac, when i went to configure the remote: the first two panes were OK, but the last one (Volumes) failed with the aforesaid error message. Thanks for the other info: the Tech Note was useful. Hi Owen, The

Backing up to CDRW

2000-08-11 Thread Nicholas Froome
I'm setting up Retrospect 4.2 on a Mac to backup to a USB-attached CDRW drive with a Mitsumi mechanism. It appears the mechanism might not be supported by Retrospect as it does not work. I can burn and erase CDs using Toast so the drive functions OK. My question is not "what drives does

RE: tape strategy question (old topic)

2000-08-11 Thread jakob krabbe
The below mail was posted a month ago, before I went camping in the German Alps. I've been home for a week and the backup is working extremely poor. Q #1. I did five scripts and five StorageSets, one for each workday, and they all were executed with a Recycled Backup. Maybe I can have just

Re: Newcomer Questions

2000-08-11 Thread Richard E. Hassler
* 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: Backing up to CDRW

2000-08-11 Thread Adrian Smith
At 10:03 AM +0100 11/8/2000, Nicholas Froome wrote: I'm setting up Retrospect 4.2 on a Mac to backup to a USB-attached CDRW drive with a Mitsumi mechanism. It appears the mechanism might not be supported by Retrospect as it does not work. I can burn and erase CDs using Toast so the drive

Re: NT Backup Failing

2000-08-11 Thread Matthew Tevenan
Cory, Sorry, obviously I need to read a bit better, or at least slower. The Mac mention made me somehow think this was a SCSI drive. The bottom line here is that unfortunately, we don't support the tape drive you are using. Retrospect does not support parallel port tape or CD-R/RW drives. We

Re: NT Backup Failing

2000-08-11 Thread Cory Rau
Will support for this drive be forthcoming or do I need to purchase a new drive? Thanks, Cory On 8/11/00 11:31 AM, Matthew Tevenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated: Cory, Sorry, obviously I need to read a bit better, or at least slower. The Mac mention made me somehow think this was a SCSI

Re: NT Backup Failing

2000-08-11 Thread Matthew Tevenan
We will not be supporting any parallel port drives. Consult our compatibility list at http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=compatibility_list for more information on supported drives. Regards, Matthew Tevenan Technical Support Specialist Dantz Development Corporation 925.253.3050 [EMAIL

RE: tape strategy question (old topic)

2000-08-11 Thread Matt Barkdull
Same thing appears when backing up a local folder on the server. --- Server: desktop gray G3, mac os 8.6, a VXA drive connected through motherboard SCSI. thanx, / jakob I'm curious, when you say "server" do you mean AppleShare server? What other software you have running here? --

4.3 and System 9.04 - Crashing all the time

2000-08-11 Thread Robert Burr
after many years of using retrospect blissfully, I'm at whit's end with the latest upgrade. It crashes every hour or so on my G4. Error type 2, Error type 11 and bus errors all the time. I'm running a very simple back up server script with a number of clients on the LAN. I've increase the RAM

Re: 4.3 and System 9.04 - Crashing all the time

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Axthelm
after many years of using retrospect blissfully, I'm at whit's end with the latest upgrade. It crashes every hour or so on my G4. Error type 2, Error type 11 and bus errors all the time. I'm running a very simple back up server script with a number of clients on the LAN. I've increase the RAM