Martijn (and others),
This sounds like just what I want. I'll give it a whirl.
I understand the options with regards to user priority and schedules,
but I think having the client completely inactivated during experiments
will be the most effective (and most popular with the end users involved).
I have a SONY AIT+ Autoloader from LaCie, and am using Retrospect 4.2 to
do network backups.
Tonight, I have to switch Backup sets.
Problem is there is an "erased" tape in the autoloader, as well as the
"1-Backup" and "2-Backup" tapes that normally go with this Backup Set.
I need Retrospect to
Greetings, we have a new Ecrix VXA tape drive and Retrospect 5.15,
having various problems. Mostly "Lost communication with device" and
error -204. (No, I'm not trying to save the catalogue to the device nor
backup the desktop.) The drive will work with a "dumb" program like NT
backup, but fails
Instead of just restarting, try shutting down for a minute and then
restarting. This will ensure that everything is cleared out.
Regarding the tape, Retrospect is likely thinking that the error was a
result of defective media. When it asks for a new tape, it's erring on the
side of caution and
What is the priority of operations? Does "Writing to any tape that is
erased or named 1-Backup" mean that Retro looks for erased tapes first, or
does it seek named tapes first and resort to erased tapes if it can't find
a named tape?
Also, why does it treat erased tapes that have been
So Retrospect reports errors that it finds in the network setup that
doesn't affect ANYTHING else? If these errors existed then why does
nothing else complain?
Yet.
I copy large files from one machine to another, but that never fails
Yet.
That's taking a rather simplistic approach
