Retrospect and Ecrix VXA

2000-05-31 Thread Eric Ullman
Hi all, Several messages have been posted here regarding poor VXA performance with Retrospect. I'd like to clear them up here. First of all, I personally use one of these drives, and it rocks. It replaced an aging DDS-2 drive, and I absolutely love the VXA. I use it with a SuperMac S900 clone

List Archives?

2000-05-31 Thread Retrospect
I've have horrible error 519 problems with 2 beige G3's now (REV. A) and I was wondering if there are any list archives that I could search for answers to what might be happening. Paul Fabris IS Manager Market Connections Inc. 25 Sheppard Ave. West, Toronto ON M2N 6S6 (416) 223-2250 x224

RE: List Archives?

2000-05-31 Thread Retrospect
I was wondering if there are any list archives that I could search Never mind. Just saw the answer at the bottom of my own message. Please forgive the newbie! PF -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL

Re: List Archives?

2000-05-31 Thread Matthew Tevenan
Paul, I'd recommend first consulting Dantz Technical Note 415, "Troubleshooting Error 519." It's a comprehensive troubleshooting guide to this error, located at http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=tn415 Then, if you're still having problems, please contact Dantz Technical Support. Regards,

Re: Retrospect and Ecrix VXA

2000-05-31 Thread Daniel Knight
Eric Ullman notes: First of all, I personally use one of these drives, and it rocks. It replaced an aging DDS-2 drive, and I absolutely love the VXA. I use it with a SuperMac S900 clone (basically a 9500), connected to the mediocre logic-board SCSI, and I still get over 135 MB/min locally. Two

Re: Mac CPU upgrades?

2000-05-31 Thread Mark Collien
Jon Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not to get into a brand war (we use some Newer cards too), but we've had very good experiences with Sonnet cards. They tend to be less expensive than Newer's, not to mention the fact that they had Mac OS 9 support several months before Newer. We have had

Re: Retrospect and Ecrix VXA

2000-05-31 Thread Greg Morin
a SuperMac S900 clone (basically a 9500), connected to the mediocre logic-board SCSI, and I still get over 135 MB/min locally. Two more As one of the original posters with slow performance (50 MB/min max locally) then from the above I can only conclude there is some sort of hardware

[Request] Progress bar on client machines

2000-05-31 Thread Matthew Healey
HI there, I have just installed Retro in our network to backup our servers and the directors Powerbook G3 500's. Everything works perfectly and the powerbook backups over Airport are a network admins dream!. Good job Guys! What I did want to know though, is it possible to show a progress bar on

RE: [Request] Progress bar on client machines

2000-05-31 Thread Craig Isaacs
That's a good request, Matthew. Thanks. One thing to note: it's OK if the backup is interrupted. The next time the notebook shows up on the network, Retrospect only copies what it doesn't already have. If the user wants to see if the backup is still happening (not how much is left -- sorry),

Re: [Request] Progress bar on client machines

2000-05-31 Thread Matthew Healey
on 1/6/2000 1:09 PM, Craig Isaacs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a good request, Matthew. Thanks. One thing to note: it's OK if the backup is interrupted. The next time the notebook shows up on the network, Retrospect only copies what it doesn't already have. If the user wants