>
> Has anyone seen this -
> A Win9x client is in one Backup Server Script. But it keeps on
> backing up the
> client up all day long. Each backup is successful. The script is set for
> "Backup every one day" ...
>
> This has happened with other clients too.
>
> Any ideas?
Yes -- How many back
> And for my rant. I have all the manuals of Retrospect going back to
> version 2 and I have three servers so this makes a few manuals on my
> bookshelf. Why can't Dantz label their manuals with the current
> version? All the manuals do not have version numbers for the app. The
> way I figure the
> What I was hoping for was an installer that the backup administrator
> could set the password beforehand. Then this installer with the set
> password could be made available publicly to our customers for
> install. As is stands now, we are forced to send a tech out to do
> the install so the
> I agree that having an installer that has a keyable password would work
> nicely. However at the moment having to enter a password is a real pain.
> We add/transfer 30 or so new machines a week so one wrong password can take
> hours to days to fix (it shouldn't but it does).
>
> And more to t
Anyone using Retrospect 5.0 with Windows 2000?
If so, would you please reply to me offline?
Thanks.
Craig
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> Has anyone had any experience on how well Sun's Solstice/Legato
> systems backup solution works on the Mac.
>
> It claims it supports up to Mac OS 8.5. Our sys admin is looking at
> trashing retrospect and switching over to Solstice adn I need to
> know how that is going to affect our Macs.
>
Woo hoo!
Thanks, Luke. It always helps to hear *why* we do what we do.
Craig
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Luke Jaeger
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:31 PM
> To: retro-talk
> Subject: my @$$ is saved
>
>
> Just another or
"Very soon now" Retrospect will be able to do an action before a volume is backed
up and then another action after the volume is backed up.
You could use that feature to stop a database, do the backup, and then start the
database back up.
Craig
(Of course, this list will be the first to hear a
>
> I hope Retro will be able to tell a CLIENT to do something (like run a batch
> file). That would be REALLY helpful if I could turn off virus software to
> speed the client up...
... or tell a client to exit Outlook 2000 (since the other versions will back up
cleanly)...
That would be good,
> If I do a full backup of any ntfs parition with retro server 5 will the
> security/permissions of all files backed up be saved and restored if needed?
> I'm fairly confident it will, I guess I just need confirmation and
> assurance of the process from someone with experience of the process.
> m
> Has anyone any thoughts on Ecrix' VXA-1 drive?
We've seen good results at Dantz.
Personally, I appreciate their approach to writing data on media.
Craig
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> Dear Dantz;
>
> Are you working on Retrospect (application and client) for OS X Server and
> OS X?
>
> Please say you are. Monigroup backup is a bit clunky for this Netboot
> environment...
Check our web site for recent press releases.
I'm happy to say we've committed to Mac OS X, and Apple h
you get diminishing returns?
If you have more than a hundred clients and you want your backup window to be as
small as possible, get a fast 2 processor system with >512MB of RAM.
Craig
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written that way (Photoshop?), but the number was
relative small.
Craig (who is signing off because it's already ~8PM in Paris)
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> I went to the Retrospect site and found all kinds of info - but no
> hint as to how to buy the upgrade to 4.1/4.2 from 4.0. I see it's
> $29.95 but the upgrade is not listed on the Buy Now page.
>
> I was hoping to buy and download now.
I'm very sorry about that.
We will add that feature to o
> We bought an internal VXA 1 SCSI tape drive to replace the DLT 4000 that
> died on us last week. Our backup server is a Powermac 7200/90. While the
> price and capacity of the device are great (< 66 GB with 2:1 compression),
> we are having trouble getting the data transfer rate even close t
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>If I may make one suggestion:
>
>Just to give yourself peace of mind, it's a good thing to do a "test
>nuke". If you can, remove your working mirror disks from the server a
(Bob said: "I attempted to post a message to the "Retro-Talk " mailing list
this
morning and experienced some difficultyPossibly you can pass this
onto the responsible party..?" So, here's his post. Craig)
On 5/3/00 18:23 ed hintz via email account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated the
following.
> > Drive cost $550 $630
> > Tape cost $60 $50
>
> For that kind of money, why not just buy a refurbished iMac, put NetPresenz
> on it, and use it as an ftp storage set repository? Just a thought...
Tape has higher capacity, which lets you keep more files and more versions of
th
Hi everyone!
If you're looking for ammo to help sway a friend or colleague towards
Retrospect for Windows, consider looking at the Retrospect reviews on our web
site.
http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=winreviews
InformationWeek: "Retrospect 5.1 is one of the easiest and most flexible
bac
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), s
> Here's the stress then.. I need a copy of retrospect for each machine then
> right. Who's got that much scratch. plus I prefer to not have retrospect
> running on any of my servers (putting the client on there hurt). so hmmm
> looks like I'll still do it manually. Or maybe set-up an applescript
> Does Retrospect Express automatically backup the registry of
> Windows 98 when
> I do a full backup of the c;drive (where windows resides)?
Yes.
Craig
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> Is it possible to encrypt/password protect the content on the backup
> media? I know that you can encrypt/password protect the network
> transfer from the clients to the server but what about the contents
> of the media?
When you create a new backup set, you can set encryption. Click on the
Se
> 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!?
Open the Retrospect installation folder. Two folders have been installed:
ReportsWatcher
External Scripts
Open the external scripts folder and then open the email notifier folder.
Inside, there's a file you can edit to add your email address(es) for
notification.
Also, ReportsWatcher is pretty
> >retro-talk #660 - Tuesday, July 18, 2000
> > Dantz Website / Update?
>
> I did not receive an announcement of this update. I heard about
> it from TidBits.
> Did Dantz make an announcement to users?
Dantz sent an email to all registered Retrospect for Mac customers. So, if
you didn't get an
> Or #3: there's a bug in your notification process.
>
> My copy is registered, which wsa last verified a few months ago.
> My email works - I get about 300 per day with no problem.
> I didn't get an email about the update.
>
> I suggest you take another look at your process.
Actually, it turns
Title: Estimate of user data backed up
On
this page:
http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=white_papers
there
is a workgroup backup workbook. I believe it's also in the appendix of most
recent Retrospect manuals.
It's a
great place to start.
Craig
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> Actually, this is the latest route suggested by Matt. I am
> reluctant to take
> such extreme measures as blowing away an entire subnet so far.
> That sort of
> work would have to be after hours, and this, after all an evaluation of
> Retrospect to see if it warrants purchase.
Did you try to
> How does one force a single file to get backed up that RS thinks is
> already backed up?
One way:
Launch Retrospect
Immediate>Backup
Select your source and destination volumes if they're not already selected
Click Options
Click More Choices
Click Matching
Uncheck "Match source volumes to cat
> I've just updated 4.1 to 4.3 on the app, and 4.2 rdu 1.9.
> Everytime I start
> up it tells me that the extension is too old?? Any ideas would be
> appreciated.
You may throw away the RDU.
Newer versions of Retrospect always include the drivers from the older RDUs.
There are currently no RDU
Is anyone interested in replying to a usenet posting about experiences with
Retrospect for Windows?
Here's the link:
http://www.deja.com/%5bST_tr=st%5d/discussion/654739937
Thanks in advance
Craig
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> 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.
Launch Retrospect
Automate>Scripts
New
Pick "Backup"
Call the script "Daily"
Click Sources and set your sources
Click Destinations and add
> I've noticed that on a number of occasions when backing up my ASIP server
> (6.3.1) from another Mac, any connected users get shut out, although the
> server continues to work and the backup proceeds without a problem.
> What's happening? any advice gratefully received.
Just a guess (in other
> Will the duplication be like a Recycle backup or after the first
> will it be
> like a Normal backup (i.e only what has changed).
Duplicates will only copy files that are not already there.
The two options are to either make the destination look exactly like the
source (i.e., delete files on
...
> This really does work...honest. Before I would conjecture on what's
> happening at your site I'd like to ask you some questions.
>
> Like:
> 1) what does the log say?
> 2) do you have any error messages in modal/non-modal boxes (like backup
> failed with error "blah blah blah")?
> 3) did you
> I created a backup set based on a selector I built. After I did the
> first backup to that backup set, suddenly I realized that, oops,
> there are more files I should have included in it.
>
> Can I now modify that selector, adding another condition to included
> the files I forgot to originall
tensive and scales based on CPU performance.
The interesting thing about backup systems is that there are so many places
for potential performance issues: network, backup drive, OS, I/O, etc. It's
rare (and wonderful!) when you can change one component and have a huge
impact on backup per
> can Retrospect (Mac) be used to synchronize the drives on two
> geographically separated Macs?
>
> something came up in another mailing list that I thought
> Retrospect might be able to handle. (basically, it's to synch a
> main and a backup web server.)
Retrospect can do this easily if the sy
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to run Retrospect from a CD?
> ...
> I'll be willing to try whatever you can send along.
Time to upgrade. Looks like you're using an old version.
Craig
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> Of Wade Masshardt
> Unless I'm wrong, the Windows clients will restart the client
> computer immediately after they are updated, whereas the Macintosh
> clients require a manual restart.
>
> For fun and games, do a mass update of all
> Could someone techy from Dantz weigh in on this?
Wow -- where to begin?
1. Retrospect only copies unique files to the backup set, which does reduce
the amount of data copied to the backup set without reducing safety.
Typically, you can expect to only copy 70-80% of the data on a network,
depe
> I'd like to say that I am not knocking Retrospect in the very least.
> This discussion on compression started by a feature suggestion.
> Retrospect is the best backup software on the market. I say that
> without hesitation because our department has tried at least 2 others
> and they quite fra
> How feasible is it to backup a remote office over a DSL line? A
> client has
> a backup server at their main office and a remote site with 3 Macs. Each
> office has DSL. Assuming we can get through the firewalls, and get static
> IPs at the remote site, is it just a matter of entering the re
> >I do it, but it's slow.
> >
> >I think the best way to accomplish the task would be to do a
> duplicate from
> >the source drive to a local drive, and then back up the local drive.
>
> If the slow speed is a result of the connection speed, this won't
> save time will it?
Because it's so slow,
> Hi again,
> I only received one response to the email below about 102
> errors disappearing after restarts...so if anyone else has any light
> to shed it would be appreciated. Since I posted we have found that if
> IE crashes (which it does extremely frequently on the backup) machine
> t
> Does anyone know of a Mac utility that can sniff ethernet packets to
> diagnose the integrity of an ethernet network? I'm not trying to look at
> the contents of the packets, just to see whether any are being dropped or
> whether there is an excessive number of collisions.
http://www.neonsof
> > - with a lot of computers, the Retrospect catalog files can become
> > large,
> > and doing the comparisons between catalog and the current client
> > filesystem structure prior to backing up each client can take a long
> > time.
We are working diligently on this issue. It will be faster in
The key here: you have to think about Retrospect differently than Backup
Exec or ARCserve.
Retrospect tracks every file copied to each backup set. So, the first time
you back up, every file that matches your criteria is added to the set. The
next time you back up (assuming normal backups -- not n
> Hi all,
>
> Apart from repeatedly badgering users to make sure Outlook is quit
> before having the backup run, is there any fix in the works for the
> Mac version of Retrospect to back up the "open" Outlook *.pst files
> when backing up PCs? ...
>
> Or is this something the PC version o
>
> Hello, list!
>
> I've read the manual, reviewed the archives, but I'm still not
> sure if this is a good idea, (or if I completely "get it") so I'd
> like the list's input:
>
> I'm responsible for a 100bT network with about 50 desktops, 15
> laptops and 3 servers, ...
What you want to do is
> I have a customer who is running Windows 2000 and is on DSL. I have
> access to his computer with Timbuktu Pro. I would like to backup
> files from his computer to my server (Mac). I also have a PC on my
> network running Windows 2000. Is there a way to mount his drive or
> files using my PC t
> Previous failed solutions
>
> clean drive with compressed air duster (HP)
> re-install Arcserve (ME & HP)
> Complete Power off (ME & HP)
> Complete change of Tapes (Me & HP)
> Netware Patch for CD rom drives (ME)
Since you posted this on retro-talk, I have to suggest that you put the tape
driv
> I was just looking through my log file and I notice that there are a lot
> of entries for a user that say that the user was deferred every
> 4 minutes yesterday from 9:48am to 4:48 pm.
>
> I have seen this before with different users.
>
> Does anyone know why this happens? What is going on?
> But then, since "removable disks" and "CDR-Drive" are 2
> different selections from the pop-up menu, maybe that's enough
> to keep it from spanning discs
Exactly.
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> I use the same basic setup. Its easier to restore only the docs and
> prefs to the disk after you have restored everything else with an
> image.
Keep in mind how Retrospect works (based on Eric's ASCIIart).
If you're already using disk imagine software (Mac or Windows
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