Frequent Freezes
every since we have upgraded our back-up system from DVD-RAM to a Sony DDS-4 dirve, we have been having frequent freezes during back-ups. I am using Retrospect 4.3 and 9.0.4 on a single processor 500mhz G4. Any Ideas? -- James Haley, MCP Systems Administrator Contemporary Media, Inc. 901-521-9000 ext. 469 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Frequent Freezes
Sounds like potential SCSI voodoo to me. Have you tried rearanging cables, and such? Other potential culprits could be the SCI adapter (which one are you using?), or the preferences file. every since we have upgraded our back-up system from DVD-RAM to a Sony DDS-4 dirve, we have been having frequent freezes during back-ups. I am using Retrospect 4.3 and 9.0.4 on a single processor 500mhz G4. Any Ideas? -- James Haley, MCP Systems Administrator Contemporary Media, Inc. 901-521-9000 ext. 469 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050. ___ Philip Chonacky, IS Manager Barrett Companies ph. (617) 577-9500 fx. (617) 577-1010 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Frequent Freezes
on 11/2/00 11:08 AM, Philip Chonacky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like potential SCSI voodoo to me. Have you tried rearanging cables, and such? Other potential culprits could be the SCI adapter (which one are you using?), or the preferences file. I'm using the SIIG AP-40 Ultra-wide SCSI. I'll delete the prefs tonight to see if that helps. I tried to quit Retrospect a second ago, but it stalls as if it's trying to do something. -- James Haley, MCP Systems Administrator Contemporary Media, Inc. 901-521-9000 ext. 469 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Recommend CD RW drive for Retrospect Express Mac
Sorry to bother the list with this, but I need some recommendations for a CDR or CDRW SCSI drive that works with Retrospect Express on a mac. I checked the supported devices list on the Dantz site but unfortunately it doesn't really help since (for example) QPS (make of the Que drive) seem to be using totally different part numbers than what Dantz is using. Either that or Dantz doesn't support any currently shipping QPS drives... Or, for example if I look in the MacWarehouse or APS catalogs they don't specify part numbers or OEM mechanism part numbers so I have no idea how to reference that item with what's on the approved list. Anyway... this is for a 7100/80 so I'm stuck with SCSI (no nubus USB or Firewire cards). I'm interested in the QPS CD-RW 6x4x24, external SCSI or APS CD-RW 8x8x24 SCSI Pro2 but don't know if either one works with Retro Express... and I'm totally open to any suggestions even if these do work with it. Thanks in advance, -Greg Morin -- Gregory Morin, Ph.D. ~~~Research Director~~ Seachem Laboratories, Inc. www.seachem.com 888-SEACHEM ~ -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Recommend CD RW drive for Retrospect Express Mac
op 02-11-2000 21:17 schreef Greg Morin op [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry to bother the list with this, but I need some recommendations for a CDR or CDRW SCSI drive that works with Retrospect Express on a mac. I checked the supported devices list on the Dantz site but unfortunately it doesn't really help since (for example) QPS (make of the Que drive) seem to be using totally different part numbers than what Dantz is using. Either that or Dantz doesn't support any currently shipping QPS drives... Or, for example if I look in the MacWarehouse or APS catalogs they don't specify part numbers or OEM mechanism part numbers so I have no idea how to reference that item with what's on the approved list. Anyway... this is for a 7100/80 so I'm stuck with SCSI (no nubus USB or Firewire cards). I'm interested in the QPS CD-RW 6x4x24, external SCSI or APS CD-RW 8x8x24 SCSI Pro2 but don't know if either one works with Retro Express... and I'm totally open to any suggestions even if these do work with it. Thanks in advance, -Greg Morin I have a scsi PLEXTOR 12/4/32 and it works perfect with Retrospect. -- Jan Peelaerts Wochterberg 33 2200 Herentals tel. 014/74 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
RE: How can I stop an NT service before backup?
Perhaps this idea will help, its implementation requires only that you can use command-line arguments to halt and restart the server: You have a special script that just backs up the database files that can't be backed up while the server is running. You create a RetroEventhandler.bat halts the server when the special script starts, and restarts the server when the special script finishes. Meanwhile, you have another script that backs up everything except the database files, it runs at any time and doesn't shut down the server. In your case, hopefully the time required to back up a single database wouldn't require too much downtime. Dantz is using this strategy successfully in-house with an NT 4.0 Server and a MySQL database. We're not even shutting down the server, since MySQL has a convenient tool that allows a single command to dump the database to a file without halting the database service. Our RetroEventhandler.bat script simply runs the dump command before backup, the backup script has a custom selector that backs up everything (including the dump) except for the live database files. See the Retrospect 5.1 User's Guide Addendum for a complete discussion of Retrospect scripting events. Best Regards, Paul Mackinney Dantz Development Corporation From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kraut, David Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:02 PM To: 'retro-talk' Subject: RE: How can I stop an NT service before backup? Thanks Ben but like I mentioned, my backups sometimes start at 7:00PM and are still running the next morning when I come in! I am backing up 10+ servers to a tape library and I can't leave the service down for that long of a time -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Recommend CD RW drive for Retrospect Express Mac
Greg Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Sorry to bother the list with this, but I need some recommendations for a CDR or CDRW SCSI drive that works with Retrospect Express on a mac. I recently bought an external SCSI Yamaha CDRW 8824. It works just fine with Retrospect Express 4.3. It also does a good job of burning music CDRs (50 so far, with only one coaster). I recommend it highly. If you get this model, be sure to update the version of toast that comes with it, and also run the firmware update from Yamaha. Gordon Vickrey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Recommend CD RW drive for Retrospect Express Mac
Just a note: I believe APS uses the Yamaha mechanism as well. Greg Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Sorry to bother the list with this, but I need some recommendations for a CDR or CDRW SCSI drive that works with Retrospect Express on a mac. I recently bought an external SCSI Yamaha CDRW 8824. It works just fine with Retrospect Express 4.3. It also does a good job of burning music CDRs (50 so far, with only one coaster). I recommend it highly. If you get this model, be sure to update the version of toast that comes with it, and also run the firmware update from Yamaha. Gordon Vickrey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Error 212, VXA, Retrospect 4.3
Hello All, two weeks ago we bought a VXA drive which we are running on an Adaptec SCSI card in a PPC 8500/200 with128MB RAM. Backups run just fine and very fast, but after having backed up the entire network (probably 40GB) the next incremental backup suddenly stops and asks for the tape that's already in the drive. This tape is now marked as "gelöscht" which is German for erased or deleted. When this first happened I ejected the tape and put it straight back in the machine and it appeared to recognise it but when I tried to continue the incremental backup it brought up an Error 212 message. When I tried to retrieve data from the tape it appeared to rewind to the correct spot and start to retrieve the document, but then stops and again brings the error 212 message. The first time this happened I thought that I had maybe set up the script incorrectly or had inadvertently deleted the tape. Therefore yesterday I rewrote the backup scripts and backed up the whole network again onto a new tape. This evening I came back into the office to find that todays incremental backup had also stopped and was again demanding the tape already in the drive. All other details are again as described above. This is, as you will surely realise, a very disturbing situation for us as we are now without a safetynet and our old DAT based system simply cannot cope with the amount of data we are generating. if anybody is able to shed some light on this Iwould be very grateful. Best regards, David Weeks -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050. David, The first step I would take in troubleshooting this situation would be to isolate the SCSI bus. Are there more than 1 SCSI device on the Adaptec SCSI bus? Is your VXA drive terminated properly? One other option would be to temporarily attach your drive to the 8500's built in SCSI bus. Also I'm just curious as to what operating system you are using. Please update us on your situation. Chad Chelius -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Recommend CD RW drive for Retrospect Express Mac
I'm using a Plextor 12/4/32 with good results. on 11/2/00 1:51 PM, Jan Peelaerts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a scsi PLEXTOR 12/4/32 and it works perfect with Retrospect. -- Jan Peelaerts Wochterberg 33 2200 Herentals tel. 014/74 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
