Re: Firewire VXA tape drive

2001-01-12 Thread John Gee
2) Is the new drive now a native firewire implementation, or is it just the old drive with the adaptor inside the box instead of outside the box? First, there are NO native FireWire storage devices on the market. All current FireWire drives are using a bridge solution whether it is an

script advice

2001-01-12 Thread Donovan Brooke
oops, wanted to post this again not under a wrong subheadding Hello retro, I was wondering if I could get some suggestions on a back-up script/system I've put together. I am backing up our ASIP server via mounted volumes on another host G4 computer to a Mac file on a USB 60 gig HD. Things are

Re: Retrospect scripts and OS9

2001-01-12 Thread Chad S. Chelius
Tim, I'm not sure if I understand your question. Are you talking about a Retrospect script or an Applescript? Also what do you mean by clean up? Please explain. Chad Chelius I had a script modified to clean up the Retrospect Control Panel prefs on the client machines. I upgraded one of my

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread jakob krabbe
At 19:34 2001-01-11 -0800, you wrote: I need to check to be sure, but I believe both are HFS +. The powerbook is running Retrospect, and backing itself up onto a firewire drive. -- The 2 gb limit is damn annoying but you have to get used to it. The limit is the mac os itself, not

similar question about firewire/SCSI

2001-01-12 Thread Jeffry C. Nichols
In one of the messages, there was talk about firewire to SCSI bridges and how Retrospect supports them. Is this support for specifically made devices? The reason I ask is we just bought a new iMac and it gets less use overall than the current backup computer. I was considering purchasing a

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Glenn L. Austin
At 19:34 2001-01-11 -0800, you wrote: I need to check to be sure, but I believe both are HFS +. The powerbook is running Retrospect, and backing itself up onto a firewire drive. -- The 2 gb limit is damn annoying but you have to get used to it. The limit is the mac os itself, not

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Julia Frizzell
At 9:46 AM -0800 1/12/01, Glenn L. Austin wrote: At 19:34 2001-01-11 -0800, you wrote: I need to check to be sure, but I believe both are HFS +. The powerbook is running Retrospect, and backing itself up onto a firewire drive. -- The 2 gb limit is damn annoying but you have to get

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Shawn Welter
Mac os 9 supported files over 2gb. To use retrospect you need version 4.3. I currently back up 40 mac clients and 10 pc clients to 60gb IDE drives using mac files. Some backup sets are 12gb apiece. We do massive selecting as all are software is installed by filewave. Each client averages

Re: Retrospect scripts and OS9

2001-01-12 Thread Tim David
sorry to be ambiguous with this. I was referring to the Applescript, specifically the script that comes with the client to reset the prefs. (it is called Client Preferences Cleaner) I am far from an Applescript expert but I can't get the same script to run on an OS9 machine and an OS8.6

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Donovan Brooke
dana, If you are not absolutley sure that the firewire drive is HFS+ I would double check it. (do a get info on the drive) look for Mac OS Extended. - D Shawn Welter wrote: Mac os 9 supported files over 2gb. To use retrospect you need version 4.3. I currently back up 40 mac clients and 10 pc

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread dana rasmussen
Virex, forgot all about that. Thank you, one and all. -- Dana Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seattle, Wa From: "Dan O'Donnell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:51:19 -0800 To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2gb limit? At