Re: Advice requested: tape system

2000-09-18 Thread Keepsake
Graham Mitchell said: I am therefore looking for an economical, reliable tape based solution that can handle the job. I've read discussions about using IDE drives. You can get 40 GB drives for around $200. At that price, you can get five drives, use one to write your backups to and then swap

Re: Retro Speed

2000-09-05 Thread Keepsake
I apologize for reopening a dead thread on the list, but I just wanted to share. Running Retrospect 4.2 on a Quadra 950 with 40 MB RAM over built-in ethernet to our ASIP server, I get 13-16 MB/min. Having moved Retrospect and the tape drive over to the server* (after addressing stability

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

2000-08-17 Thread Keepsake
Andrew Stein said: The backup run of any script ( or any backup attempt at all) will freeze at a random point during execution, with the software running and the tape drive read light off, and remain so forever. If the system is loaded without extensions, everything works fine, the script

Re: Linux Client

2000-08-17 Thread Keepsake
GF requested: Hey Dantz, when will a Linux client be available? Obviously you are working on one... Of course, the current workaround is to have SMB or Netatalk running on your Linux/Un*x box so its volumes can be mounted on the backup server and backed up. -- Eric Zylstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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