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.
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The 2 gb limit is damn annoying but you have to get used to it. The limit
is the mac os itself, not
Hmm...
First, I didn't know there was such thing as a 4.3 update for the mac os.
Should I change the current 4.2?
I have a beige G3 server for retrospect, an asip server with a 30 scsi raid
and some 10 mac clients.
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Then I'd like to share another solved problem with you.
During my time
At 10:42 2000-12-07 -0900, you wrote:
Did the speed decrease happen between the backup switch and the
basement switch? or was that within one switch?
I haven't done so much research on this topic since it came so
unexpectedley. I have LOADS of stuff to do so the good old phrase "if it
works
How much speed is wasted when uplinking 100MBit swiches?
He have just expended and the back-up used to be something like 70 MB / min
and now it's down to less than 40 MB / min!
[backup switch] - [main switch] - [basement switch]
The arrows indicates the uplink.
Backup switch is an Asante,
Hi,
I've been looking for an AppleShare IP community, list or similar for quite
some time.
This "retro-talk" list is great, is there an "asip-talk" out there somewhere?
thanx,
/ jakob
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...is Retrospect smart enough
to continue where it left off without rewinding the tape?
Yes, Retrospect is a damn good tool. As Irena said, the tape will be
rewined to check what tape it is. Then Retrospect will forward the tape to
put the new information *after* the old one.
It takes a
At 09:52 2000-09-22 -0700, you wrote:
Just as a note, I was backing up my Tangerine iBook (color is the most
important feature, right?) over 100 BaseT to a FireWire hard drive on my
desktop computer and saw over 200 MB/min transfers for the entire backup.
If you have a mixed 10 and 100 network,
Thanx for your input. What exactleyt are you saying!?
We used to had that problem and it turned out that Mac OS was the failing
part. We bought a 24 port Intel 10/100 switch and Mac OS got all screwed
when it came to AppleTalking. I eventually solved it by putting a "software
beak" making 100
Discussed on this list earlier:
Run retrospect server on portables during day and stationaries dyring night
where backup source = VXA.
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If I change tape in the morning, doesn't the recykled nigh backup overwrite
the portables!?
Maybe I'm better off changing the tape at night after the
We use a 13-tape rotation. We swap tapes during the day on Monday, full
(recycle) backup on Monday night, normal backups Tue-Sat nights. In
addition, we have an FTP server offsite with one FTP backup set on it. Every
two weeks we do a recycle backup to it over the weekend (takes anywhere from
As it stands right now, we've just made a complete switch to new
tapes for the Monday-Thursday backups, and we started this with new
tapes in March. I should also mention that we only backup a user's
Documents folder, and they are instructed to put anything
work-related that needs to be
I started a script manually of all our computers yesterday and it took 6
1/2 hours to complete. I watched it all the time and got shure everything
was right. So I had high expectations for the automatic script at night,
the log included below.
The first computer was turned off but the second
We're looking into getting an AppleShare IP server for filesharing and it
has brought to my attention that an ASIP server cannot be used as a
Retrospect client!
Is that true and if so, how have you guys solved that problem?
thanx,
/ jakob
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First, I did not manage to print any pages from the VXA PDF manual.
I want to have five tapes named mon - fri and overwriting any information
each night. Can someone please give me a hint of the settings in Retrospect.
I made five storage sets but my problem is Retrospect keeps alerting me of
At 09:55 2000-08-11 -0800, you wrote:
Same thing appears when backing up a local folder on the server.
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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
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
I'm talking about byte-by-byte comparison. If you do no comparison,
do you check to see that your data is restorable? If you don't check
it, you must not have heard the common stories about having no
useable backup after a major crash. I've heard many.
OK, i'm off for a 3 weeks vaccation
What exactly is the purpose of verifying media after copying it?
How often is a file copied incorrect? It would be like copying 5 files over
the network but only four is correct copied and can be used...
Also, that means one have to check the entire log after every single backup
and recopy
Client licenses are now stored in Retrospect's License Manager. If you had
old-style Retrospect Clients with activator codes, then the License Manager
automatically knows how many client licenses (i.e., a 10-pack) you already
have. When you forget a client computer, the License Manager makes
Thanx for your reply!
The passwords are not written on a pice of paper next to the server...
When it comes to speed, one thing hit me, I use the internal SCSI-1 socket.
Maybe a SCSI-2 card wold speed up performance.
Thank you for your advice. They are really appreachiated.
thanx,
/ jakob
I ran a script earlier today as I had to pause.
I thought everything was in order but now, just before leaving for home, I
noticed the drive is acting very strange.
Led #2 on my VXA drive is blinking but it never stops. Blinking means that
the tape is loading but does that load take like 30
My documentation got all screwed up yesterday when I downloaded and
installed a PC client.
I prepered to use the Activator Code that I have assigned for it but the
Activator Code box never appeared and the client just worked!
Did I install a demo!?
Also, while installing i had to enter a
Why do I get only 55 - 60 MB/min and not faster?
The server is a G3 at 233 MHz with a 100 MBit card and the client is a new
G4 at 400 MHz.
I'm using the VXA tapes and maybe I'm missing some of the settings. I did
click the software compression checkbox but maybe that's unessesary.
I have the
Actually, I think this (activator codes) is a *great* feature! And
one of the reasons I upgraded from 4.0 to 4.2.
I just foud the License Manager! how long time has that one been there? ;-)
I do still have more than half of my clients with an activator code,
but when I add a new one or do a
Where are the Activator Codes stored, serverside or clientside?
I downloaded the pdf's and I've seen those before. I couldn't find that
info...
thanx,
/ jakob
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That sounded like a great suggestion!
I'll look in to that after vaccation.
To my case is that we also have some portables. I also have an 18 GB drive
as we used to backup stuff with before we bought the tapes.
Maybe I can mirror the portables to the drive during the day and copy the
drive
On the website vxatape.com there is a .sit file, "Retro 4.1 Driver Update
VXA-1" to use with the mac.
I have Retrospect 4.2 so my guess is I don't need the driver update...??
Strange update btw, i never undersood how it worked...
thanx,
/ jakob
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So I got my VXA drive in one of those nice silent boxes. (Great Ecrix!!)
I have an old PPC mac with the SCSI-1 card on the motherboard. I also have
an external harddrive as I wish to keep on the computer...
The VXA drive came with that new SCSI interface and before I go cable
shopping, does it
At 09:42 2000-06-21 -0400, you wrote:
Last I heard, the drivers were not available for the Mac. It's not a very
popular format for the PC either. I would definitely recommend VXA over
Onstream if you're addressing smaller backup needs (20GB).
Steve
Your input is greatly appreachiated. The
A company mailed me with a deal on an onstream backup solution. What
technology does onstream use? Is that the name of a backup tape + drive or
a company that sell OEM backups...?? (DLT's for example.)
The tapes were 25/50 and the drive handle 4 MB/sec.
What are they talkig about!? ;-)
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OnStream is a spin off from Philips Electronics.
You can find out about their drives and ADR technology from:
http://www.onstream.com
OK, so the tapes are called ADR. I downloaded the whitepapers and will take
a look...
The reason I ask is that I haven't seen them around in any catalogue
FWIW, a guy a Seagate told me they've found that tapes wear pretty quickly
in these things and that I should probably be replacing them more often
than I am. We cycle four different magazines through this thing and I was
just about to replace them when one got eaten. A production set of DAT
AIT = Advanced Intelligent Tape.
1. I belive this have been discussed before, but please correct me if I'm
wrong when I say Retrospect doesn't take advantage of the chiptechnology
inside those tapes.
2. Would it be wise (possible??) to cycle those tapes in six or eight week
periods? (We have
I haven't really been following the thread in a long time... But i did
notice retrospect client is not valible for Unix (Linux) plattform.
Are there anyone out there using the cool Cobalt servers? I have looked
into the NASRaQ, Network Area Storage, in a rack format, to use as a
fileserver in
This is slightley OT but I'm not the one to judge. In respect to this list
and if listmom want us to, we'll go private.
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You bet, I have an installed base numbering in the 40s. They
work really well and even though there is no Retrospect Client (yet)
I have been able to back them
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