A personal story
I posted this on Low End Mac last night. If anyone ever questions the wisdom of daily backup, have them read this article. We lost a half-day of productivity during trouble-shooting, but once we restored from backup, everything worked perfectly. http://lowendmac.com/musings/tips.html It was the kind of nightmare every information systems manager dreads: the server kept crashing. I spent most of last Friday morning wrestling our AppleShare IP server back into shape. It had crashed twice after I left Thursday afternoon -- and then at least four more times Friday as I tried to fix things. Fortunately we were prepared. Here's how you can be prepared when disaster strikes. Back Up Everything I can't say enough about backup Dan Knight, IS manager/webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baker Book House Company http://www.bakerbooks.com 6030 East Fulton 616-676-9185 x146 Ada, Michigan 49301 fax 616-676-9573 Macs for productivity, Unix for stability, Windows for solitaire -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VXA
Does anyone have experience with the VXA autoPAK system? If so, how has it performed for you? Thank you for any feedback. :-) Sincerely, Robert Cooper MIS Director Renaissance TTP, Inc. Not exactly your answer, but Yes, I DO have an autopak. I'm TRYING to run it off an Apple Mac G4 (OS 9.0.4) but the G4 doesn't see the damn thing!! What server type are you (looking to) running it from? Mark Witrylak Computer Support Team Ysgol Seicoleg School of Pyschology Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor University of Wales, Bangor Adeilad Brigantia The Brigantia Building Ffordd Penrallt Penrallt Road (Off College Rd) Bangor Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2ASGwynedd LL57 2AS Cymru Wales ffon: 01248 388214Tel: 01248 388214 ffacs: 01248 382599Fax: 01248 382599 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.3 and System 9.04 - Crashing all the time
Can you tell me if this is the Ultra SCSI2 (50 pin) card on you G4, and IF you remember, what the firmware revision was? And how you found out that it was the SCSI card? Please Mark It took me a couple tries, but my problem turned out to be an old version of the firmware for the SCSI card that I in there to run the tape drive. I upgraded the firmware and now it is 100% 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 to over 150 meg without results. Am I the only one having trouble with this combination? -ROb Mark Witrylak Computer Support Team Ysgol Seicoleg School of Pyschology Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor University of Wales, Bangor Adeilad Brigantia The Brigantia Building Ffordd Penrallt Penrallt Road (Off College Rd) Bangor Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2ASGwynedd LL57 2AS Cymru Wales ffon: 01248 388214Tel: 01248 388214 ffacs: 01248 382599Fax: 01248 382599 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: A personal story
Been there done that and Thank God for the full back up. I have restored our server a couple of times in the past 6 years and I swear by the back ups that nobody else here will take seriously, until that fatal moment when everything they worked on is not available. Thanks Glenna Hyde System Administrator/Artist Werner Ladder Co. 724-588-2000 ext 2391 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Daniel Knight Reply To: retro-talk Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2000 6:17 AM To: Retro-Talk Subject: A personal story I posted this on Low End Mac last night. If anyone ever questions the wisdom of daily backup, have them read this article. We lost a half-day of productivity during trouble-shooting, but once we restored from backup, everything worked perfectly. http://lowendmac.com/musings/tips.html It was the kind of nightmare every information systems manager dreads: the server kept crashing. I spent most of last Friday morning wrestling our AppleShare IP server back into shape. It had crashed twice after I left Thursday afternoon -- and then at least four more times Friday as I tried to fix things. Fortunately we were prepared. Here's how you can be prepared when disaster strikes. Back Up Everything I can't say enough about backup Dan Knight, IS manager/webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baker Book House Company http://www.bakerbooks.com 6030 East Fulton 616-676-9185 x146 Ada, Michigan 49301 fax 616-676-9573 Macs for productivity, Unix for stability, Windows for solitaire -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup option recommendation..please.
Dear all, ..do you think replacing the monumental BackupExec with Retrospect on our servers will make life easier here at sysadminville? but read on for more details.. I have been using Retrospect for backing up our Mac workstations and NT file volumes (accessed from mac client), our old administrator had once setup Backup Exec on our NT server but often came accross with a number of problems in recovering the data and in debugging/keeping streamlined and reliable periodic backups with this software. I laughed at his troubled life using BackupExec (which seemed to me it was overkill and convolution, though it seemed to be the choice of many a sysadmin) while my retrospect backups worked like a charm on our mac machines. Dantz has recently come up with a windows version of Retrospect and upon quick examination and backup of my personal laptop (running NT), which turned out to be as sweet a process as I have been acustomed to when using it with my macs, I feel it would make good sense to use try it out in our NT servers, and maybe replace ExecBackup for good. However, I do not know if there are any specific reservations you would have about this decision, I haven't installed/natively backed/restored our servers with Retrospect enough times to find out any potential pitfalls..do you think replacing the monumental BackupExec with Retrospect will make life easier here at sysadminville? thanks! Cesar Cesar Morales SysAdmin, Webmaster, DSA UCSD, Music Department 858-822-1034 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VXA
Well i was hoping to run it from a Beige G3! Sounds like their may be some problems though. Thank you for your input! Does anyone have experience with the VXA autoPAK system? If so, how has it performed for you? Thank you for any feedback. :-) Sincerely, Robert Cooper MIS Director Renaissance TTP, Inc. Not exactly your answer, but Yes, I DO have an autopak. I'm TRYING to run it off an Apple Mac G4 (OS 9.0.4) but the G4 doesn't see the damn thing!! What server type are you (looking to) running it from? Mark Witrylak Computer Support Team -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup option recommendation..please.
Cesar Morales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..do you think replacing the monumental BackupExec with Retrospect on our servers will make life easier here at sysadminville? Of course! =) But don't take my word for it: http://www.betterbackup.com/reviews.html Eric Ullman Dantz Development -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: VXA
Let me jump in gentleman and give a bit of feedback. Dantz has seen no complaints or incompatibilities thus far where the AutoPak is concerned. As of today we fully support the AutoPak on both platforms provided you are using 4.2 Mac/5.1 Windows or later. For the mac product I would strongly recommend using Retrospect 4.3 as it greatly enhances the performance of the Ecrix VXA drive. What I would suggest Robert is getting you in contact with someone at Ecrix that could answer any preliminary questions as well as any technical questions you may have concerning the stability of the AutoPak on a Mac G3 using Retrospect. I will get someone to contact you directly via email. Mark, I would ask that you get in touch with our tech support department on your issue so we can determine where things on your end are going wrong. I would contact tech support via email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) seeing that you are in the UK, but if you would like to do it via phone here's the number to call, +1.925.253.3000 then choose option 1. I hope this helps. Shawn Shawn Stuckey Business Development Manager Dantz Development Corporation BetterBackup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Cooper Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:45 AM To: retro-talk Subject: Re: VXA Well i was hoping to run it from a Beige G3! Sounds like their may be some problems though. Thank you for your input! Does anyone have experience with the VXA autoPAK system? If so, how has it performed for you? Thank you for any feedback. :-) Sincerely, Robert Cooper MIS Director Renaissance TTP, Inc. Not exactly your answer, but Yes, I DO have an autopak. I'm TRYING to run it off an Apple Mac G4 (OS 9.0.4) but the G4 doesn't see the damn thing!! What server type are you (looking to) running it from? Mark Witrylak Computer Support Team -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup option recommendation..please.
Cesar Morales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..do you think replacing the monumental BackupExec with Retrospect on our servers will make life easier here at sysadminville? We recently switched from that beomoth ArcServe program to Retrospect. For starters, we didn't have to buy the $400 add on to make the DLT library work. We found to get all of the functionality of Retrospect for the 100+ host we have, it would cost us roughly $2400. But besides cost, we also found it hard to figure out what and if anything had been backed up! The logs were very cryptic. We switched to Retrospect with ADK, and now the SA of that system has a lot more time to do other things, plus, more than one person knows the system again. Matt -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
