Re: during retrospect rewind the tape...
Actually this allows me to attach the tape drive to the power plug on the back of the CPU so it shuts down with the system. Without the wait it will power it off DURING the rewind. Thomas Myers wrote: This is a good example of when to use the asynchronous scsi calls. While the call completes you can be doing waitnextevent so the computer is not FROZE during this time. (Which can be over 1 minute for some media!) Tom Reply to: RE: during retrospect rewind the tape... Oops! That last paragraph was wrong. What I meant to say was... The reason it takes so long? My guess is that Retrospect is waiting until the command that it sent to the tape drive (to REWIND) has completed before freeing up the machine for other tasks. Sorry folks, -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk Errors
It likely shows up with only those file types because they were installed or optimized to be next to each other and that's the area with the media failure. Norton and it's cousins are not where near comprehensive in disk testing. They do a reasonable job but disk failures can manifest themselves in many ways. Typical media checks by these utilities just start at 0 and read to the end. If you every look at the APS PowerTools testing options you'll begin to get an idea of how hard it is to test. Selected all the test on a 2 gig drive can day a few days. Your error is likely not noticed doing a media scan but may occur only if the sectors are read after a long seek to the cylinder. Or something else hard to track down. If this is a SCSI drive then get the data off, do a low level format, then restore. If you have to manually exclude the problem files and just copy them by hand. If it's an ATA drive then you may be out of luck as a low level format outside of the factory is not allowed. But in the ATA case I'd also ZERO the drive as that can clear up errors. (It's a long and detailed story.) Error -36, in my experience, has always meant that a media problem occurred on the source volume. This has never been shown to be isolated to a specific type of file. Error -36 is an Apple-defined error being returned by the OS itself when Retrospect tries to copy a specific file. Ahh, but this is the *only* file type that turns up this error and I'm backing up gigs every night on 10 machines. As I said it's only Photoshop Files that are written by Painter. These files copy fine with the finder both locally and over the network. Try verifying the media on your source disk using a disk utility or the formatting program you used to format your hard drive. For example, if it's an Apple-formatted hard drive, use Apple Drive Setup's "Test Disk" command in the Function menu. Disk First Aid is usually not helpful in this case because it only checks for directory problems and does not check your media. I've checked both the remote and backup machine's disks with Disk First Aid, and Norton, both turn up clean. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare and Retrospect
Neat trick. I wrote one of these in the prehistoric days of Interdata and 5mb disk drives. Joy Richards wrote: I've been working with VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/) and would like to ask if it's been evaluated with Retrospect in mind. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backups of virtual pc
What I have been doing: I have setup the virtual pc folder (which contains the one huge file known as the c drive to the pc world) as a separate subvolume. I then have one script that backs up everything BUT the virtual pc folder and a different script that runs once a month to backup just the subvolume. Here's what I do. Install VPC drive image on a large partition by itself. Periodically I duplicate the C volume and toss the old duplicate. I exclude this Mac partition from the backup. I setup a folder on a partition that I do backup called WinMac Shared. Inside virtual PC I set it up as a shared drive S:. I tell folks to put their data here. If not it might go away. Not great but it works. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual PC restored
I think this was just discussed but when I clicked the link for the archives it just gave me a list and no way to search. Here's the short of it. Restored drive, now virtual PC says it wasn't properly installed... Is there a "proper" way to restore it? or am I stuck? The installation of VPC v3 seems to be tied to the volume name and maybe size and maybe serialization and maybe date and I get this message even if I've backed up EVERYTHING and restored it all. I've just taken to reinstalling the application. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed?
What would give better performance, a G3 upgrade to the 6100 or a 100 base T card. I can only do one since the 6100 only has one slot. A 100 base T card in a NuBus adapter on a 6100 will only go about 4 times as fast as the 10baseT connection. The drivers, the bus, and the 6100 just aren't up to the card. These things were made back when hubs came in 100 or 10 but not 10/100 and compatibility was needed. Now you will get the same speed up on the network with the G3 upgrade (a stock 6100 doesn't fill up a 10baseT connection either) plus the computer will be able to drive the tape drive at a much faster rate. I've been both routes (well it was on a 7100) and the G3 is the way to go. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Feeling Stupid
Also have you:
1) Restarted the computer? This must be done at least once after you
first setup an automated run. I've run into this were computers tend to
be left on 24/7.
2) Have you looked at the preview so see what retrospect thinks should
be happening?
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 save the scripts?
4) is your date/time correct? (you might want to go to AutomatedCheck to
make sure your script is ready and AutomatedPreview to see when the next
script is scheduled to run)
5) do you have media in your drive and is it turned on?
Pam
P.S. The walkthrough starts on page 57 ("Creating the Script") of the
manual and moves into "Executing the Script" further on.
It may also be useful to manually run the script to make sure it works
(assuming you did go to AutomateScripts and save a script).
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Re: Tape Drive Compatibility
What confuses me is that why don't the tape drive mfg write their software to be recognized by Windows as a tape device and all Retrospect would have to be able to do is read and write to that device through the Windows library... Wait, that's what is suppose to happen, no? I doubt Dantz would trust and/or use them anyway. Who you gonna call when things go south. Dantz or the coder of the generic DLL? -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hubs/Switches
A autosensing hub has a built-in 2 port switch. Any 100Mbps ports are repeated together, as are the 10Mbps ports. The built in switch connects the 100Mb group to the 10Mb group. Which, by the way, creates an interesting problem when using a tool such as EtherPeek to record Ethernet packets. If EtherPeek is running on a CPU with a 10 MHz Ethernet connection, it will see all packets going between 10 MHz connections, but will *not* see any of the packets going from one 100 MHz to another 100 MHz connection because in effect these have been switched to a separate 100 MHz "segment". Very baffling until one figures out what is going on. I had assumed it would be a bridge type connection, not a switch. I'll bet both are out there. Thanks for the heads up. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Email Servers - Getting OT
But can SIMS collect from a POP3 account and redistribute to local addresses as does FetchMail and ASIP is supposed to do (but you cannot configure it properly so it's not a useful as it appears)? Mailtron Gateway http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=2723 -- -- 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: VXA Mac Tool
I'm running it on a beige G3 300MHz desktop. I wouldn't trust a Power Computing system as a backup server...those are the Packard-Bell of the Mac clone world. Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and CD-ROM drives to a cheaper 3rd party though. Yep. And most used the 7200 as the basis for that equivalency. And the 7200 was Apple's answer to Packard Bell. -- -- 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: Macintosh Retrospect server migration
You will need to go into each backup script and tell where the storage set is now located as well. Important step. The backup will not happen if you don't. You can shortcut this by double clicking the files for the backup sets. Select them all in the finder and double click. You'll get a setting window for all of them at once but after that Retro will know where they are. -- -- 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: Feature suggestion: missing member notification
mmm. . . I think you've misunderstood me. All I'm wanting is an indication that a set is incomplete either when I choose it from the list of backup sets (by perhaps a broken icon or whatever) or when the results of a restore are presented ie an alert saying "Not all the possible files are included in this restore, as one or more members of the set are missing". At the moment the only way you can find out whether a set is incomplete is going into the individual set and clicking on "Members" (I think). It may or may not be true that not all files are there. When a member is set missing the next thing retrospect does is try to get a new copy of all files lost with the missing member. As long as you haven't deleted them and you don't mind them being current they'll all be there. -- -- 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: Read after write?
I am using Retrospect 4.3 for Mac with an Aiwa TD-8001 tape drive. The drive has dual heads, apparently so that it can do read after write, eliminating the need for the whole second verification run after the backup. Does Retrospect support this feature? Read after write capability would dramatically cut down on the backup time. I can't seem to find any mention of it, though. As far as I know all tape drives that are used for DATA storage use read after write. They have to as the tape media, just like disk media, isn't perfect and there will be errors. Due to the very different physical designs of the media they handle bad bits in different ways. Tape drives typically tag the trailer of the block if the RAW detects an error and then writes it again. Drives used to and may still even allow one or more recorded bit errors per block as one as the errors were well within the recovery rate of the ECC coding. This is done for a single block up to some error limit before the media is reported as bad. There used to be (10 years ago) some fee/sw utilities floating around that would allow you to access the extended SCSI data areas and see how many times this had happened and other interesting information. Drives have gone so far up in reliability over the last decade that most of these tools have disappeared. At least from my radar screen. But this is the process that would cause what looked like two identical tapes to record vastly different amounts of data if one was certified for data and the other for audio. The audio might have to write the data anywhere from 110% to 500% over original capacity to get good blocks. Now back to your point. This RAW isn't an application verification. It just makes sure the bits presented to the write head appear to get put on the media. And you have to understand that the bits written onto the tape are fairly far removed from the actually data that you, the user, wants on the tape drive. There are lots of ECC, preamble, postables, encodings, and other stuff inserted to make sure that data can later be extracted from a flimsy piece of plastic ribbon moving at the speed of a car. The Retrospect verification phase makes sure that the data is there end to end. IE you can get back the original information. It protects you from bad SCSI cards, cables, computer ram, tape controllers, etc... -- -- 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: tape capacity
I am very familiar with how modem compression, network compression, and file compression works. When I was going through school, one of our projects was to write a compression algorythem and compress a file (yes, it was a text file) the best we could. With my limited math background, I was only able to achieve compression down to 64% of the original size of that file. Another person in the class was able to get 48% on the same file. That was 16 years ago! The reason I brought up modem and network compression is that those two are streaming compressions. They take small chunks of data and compress them. Achieving at best 4:1 compression, but more like 2:1 on average. While this is not an ideal compression scheme for backups, it is something to build on. At the same time, I just don't think that Dantz needs to put that much effort into it when there are companies out there that already do compression. I am surprised at the number of "Don't change the product at all" message this is generating. I mean, why not have the option? Putting a 4 cylinder engine in that car will save gas, but I lose the speed of the V6. Let's not give people the option of putting a 4 cylinder engine in there. There's another downside to all of this. Improving the compression ratio with a tape drive, whether in hardware or software, means you're more likely to break the streaming. If you're getting a 4:1 consistent compression ratio then you have to feed data down the pipe at 4 times the minimum streaming rate of the device. And intermittently breaking the streaming could far outweigh any benefits of the extra compression. It's a complicated area with no easy answers. -- -- 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: Daily Problems with out of Sync Error messages...
I've seen this when the volume containing the catalogs is almost full and the save after the backup is completed fails. Also if the directory of this volume is corrupted. -- -- 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: G4s and error 519
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 that my experience so far does not support. I've had no known network failures of any kind - except Retrospect. To simply say that I will have one day is dodging the issue. If you look at how ethernet works, most of time anything you do will mask errors. EtherNet has error recovery built in. So an undemanding transfer, such as a Finder copy, will tend to get through, errors or not. It's those programs that really hammer the network, like a backup program trying to keep a tape at speed, that tend to fail. I've seen what you describe multiple times and it's always turned out to be a system or network problem, not a Retrospect problem. Not that that made it any less frustrating. But I have learned that a repeating problem being reported by Retrospect means I have a problem somewhere that I'll have to solve at some point. While not an expert, I have been using retrospect since about 90, starting with those "incredibly" reliable TEAC 60MB tapes. 30 sites later, I've still not found anything better. -- -- 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.
I think I've solved my morning computer lockups
Situation. Some computers would be locked up in the morning when folks came in. It appeared to be sleeping but couldn't be awakened. I normally set all desktops to turn off at 5:30am to allow time for the backup but have them off over weekends and holidays. (This is in multiple offices.) I finally figured out that it was likely the retro client waiting for shutdown. If the energy saver turns off the monitor, then does an automatic shutdown, AND the retro client is set to wait you get STUCK. (Well I guess you could move the mouse a little at a time trying to hit one of the buttons.) So I've been trying to remember to turn off the DEFAULT wait at shutdown that you get when you install a client but is there a way out of this when it does happen? -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: I think I've solved my morning computer lockups
So I've been trying to remember to turn off the DEFAULT wait at shutdown that you get when you install a client but is there a way out of this when it does happen? I found that you can type 'r' or 's' in the Retrospect Client's Wait at Shutdown dialog and the computer will either restart or shut down appropriately. Probably would solve your problem. I wonder if that's new, as I've tried it in the past with no result when the bouncing Dantz was visible. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Retro Server 5 on NT 4
I know on macs that rebuilding a catalog from scratch is a long process for one tape. Much less more than one. I know that this sounds like the long way, but isn't it possible to start from ground zero? I mean that if I start with a clean install of NT 4.0, then install Retrospect, then have Retrospect rebuild a catalog of the tape, from there I could do a complete restore of the Server, right? -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Purchasing a new system
DLT has not addressed that issue. Since linear pulls the tape across the heads at a faster rate (150 inches per second vs helical scan's .5"/second), it requires streaming -- otherwise you end up "shoe-shining". This reposition is very intense on the heads/tape of a linear drive. This applies to more than just DLT. Anything linear can suffer from this. 4mm, AIT and M2 are not plagued with this problem. Not really. AIT and DAT and I assume M2 spin the heads and slow down the tape but the relative speeds are in the same neighborhood. (I assume it's easier to spin the heads faster than move the tape faster which is why DLT appears to be falling behind in the race.) Anyway, you still need to keep the data flowing at the speed of the drive or it will stop streaming and get into tape stuttering or rewinds to reposition. This also causes a large loss in tape capacity as there's a lot of recording overhead in starting or stopping a stream. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: fixing EOD on DAT
You may have already done this but have you powered everything off and back on? These small tape drives are really computers with a very limited user interface and to be honest things like this have a tendency to have bugs in the error recovery process. Turning everything off and back on my reset the tape drive to a known state. This is not a knock against HP but something I've been seeing for 25 years of computer work. Error recovery is one of those areas where design and testing gets skimped a lot. PowerMac 7600/233, Adaptec SCSI card, HP DAT loader (DAT-1 I believe) with 6 tape cartridge The last time I did a backup the system crashed. When I loaded the cartridge again to do a backup Retrospect showed 5 of the 6 the tapes correctly (3 different Storage Sets, 2 erased, 1 no EOD (this should have shown as erased)). Tried to start a backup and the drive then displayed the requested tape as No EOD Mark, and Retrospect lost track of the actual identity of the tape. I reloaded the cartridge and then the drive reports that ALL the tapes have no EOD mark, and Retrospect displays that all tapes are erased. Retrospect will not do a verify of the individual tapes and their contents, but reports them all as erased. The drive does not indicate that it needs cleaning. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: error 5 (unknown) on Windows client
Just in the last couple of days, one of my Windows clients has started returning the following error message: "Can't access volume DISK (C:) on WIN_CLIENT, error 5 (unknown)" The client computer is running Windows 98 with Retro client 5.1 for windows. Anytime I have retro not finding a disk I do the following. It almost always fixes the problem. I have all my clients volumes set up via the Selected volumes option in the client configuration window. Hilite all the volumes. Hit Delete and answer yes. What will be left are the one that the client can see at this time. Hilite all of these and go fix your backup scripts and groups as needed. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Transfer Rates - Dantz Help?
Can someone at Dantz answer this please? Thanks David Ross wrote: I know this has been answered here before but I can't find it in any of the messages I've saved. Is the data rate shown in the real time backup progress window the rate at which data, compressed or not, is going to the drive or is it the rate at which the data is being lifted off the source disk? Or in other words is it based on the 100mb of the source file or the maybe 20mb after software compression? -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Transfer Rates - Dantz Help?
The performance is based on the raw number of MB transferred to the backup device from the source volume. BEFORE software compression? I ask since as I understand it remote clients compress before shipping to the Retrospect module that doing the writing to the device. Thanks -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Encryption protection
What's the scoop here? I've been running on the assumption that if I lost a tape under mysterious circumstances that the information would be unrecoverable. Nothing is unrecoverable if you have enough time. So the real question is how long would the various choices take to crack. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: tape or hard drive?
I like the HP DDS/DAT drives. thanks for the info on this ... Sounds like these could fit in as a part of my overall multi-faceted backup system (I think I want a USB disc, too). Now, can you tell me: Someone else informed me of the DDS-1 -2 -3 breakdowns and the different megs the tapes handled. My question: will one drive accept ALL THREE tapes, or does each tape have to be used with ts own drive? DDS-1 will read DDS-1 DDS-2 will read DDS-2 and DDS-1 DDS-3 will read DDS-3 and DDS-2 and DDS-1 and so on. The early DDS and DDS-DC drives tended to be a bit balky about reading anything including the ones they wrote. Tape drives are mechanical and at their core they move a piece of flimsy plastic at incredible speeds over a polished metal surface. And they have to do it very accurately time after time after time. They will wear out. Or the power supply will go bad. Until I switched to HP units I figured on tossing a drive and starting over after a couple of years. HP has a program where you can sign up for an extended warranty for $45 to $60 per year. If you have a bad drive you get a replacement. And the interesting thing is the HP units don't fail as often as other brands I've dealt with. Want to make a tape drive fail? 1. Ignore dust and grit. Make sure you leave it out while they replaster the office next door. 2. Don't put any power protection on the drive. After all why would the power company supply bad power. 3. Leave your tapes in the sun lit window. Or better yet in the back of the car. You get the picture. I like HP DDS for the type of offices I deal with. Currently I support a mix of DDS-1 and DDS-3 with one DDS-2 about to be retired. Over all the HP units work great. But I do have a large collection of Sony DDS-2 drives that I think are bad due to the APS cases they sit in. When I need more storage I'll likely go with AIT, Mammoth, or VXA. VXA is new and looks neat but I need something with more time under it's belt. It's web site has some interesting movies but they don't tell me much. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: tape or hard drive?
I'll check this out later today. matt barkdull wrote: I don't think the DDS-3 drives will read the DDS-1 tapes, but will read the DDS-2. Basically this means they are one step backward compatible. DDS-3 will read/write DDS-2 DDS-2 will read/write DDS-1 DDS-1 cannot read/write DDS-2 DDS-2 cannot read/write DDS-3 -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
How can a client name change?
I use a Mac to backup a Dell PIII to a DAT drive. (This was an evolution, not a new setup.) Yesterday I realized that the backup wasn't working because the name of the PC had changed from "Dell PIII Accounting" to "111ES" about a week ago. Any ideas as to what could have done this? And the odds of intentional action by the direct staff are quite low. The machine is on the internet via an ADSL line through IPNR on a 7100. No ports are mapped to the Dell. And email isn't used on the Dell. Only surfing. So are there any reasonable accidental ways this could have happened. Could it be a virus picked up via surfing? TIA -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
Re: Error -36 (i/o error, bad media?)
The drive where the shap shots are stored is full or corrupt. I had a similar one a while back and it turned out the drive directory was all messed up. Up until recently, I was running Retrospect 4.3 on a Power Mac 9600, and backing up servers and workstations (I work for a book publisher) to a Quantum DLT8000 tape drive. A few weeks ago, however, I got a brand new G4/466. It's a fairly standard setup (512MB RAM, 30GB IDE HD, Adaptec 2906 SCSI card, Adaptec 2940UW card, Virex 5.9.1). However, as soon as I ran a backup, I began receiving client errors similar to the following -2/28/2001 11:02:17 PM: Copying Susan McBride on Susan McBride Couldn't write Snapshot, error -36 (i/o error, bad media?) 2/28/2001 11:22:11 PM: 1 execution errors Completed: 2479 files, 1.7 GB Performance: 85.2 MB/minute Duration: 00:19:54 (00:00:13 idle/loading/preparing) This happens both during normal and recycle backups, but not on all machines. Each computer generates a single error during the backup. In addition, I receive numerous errors on my G4 (940 of them this morning, as a matter of fact), similar to the following - Can't read file 3Macintosh HD:Applications (Mac OS 9):Acrobat Reader 4.0:Resource:CMap:AdobeFnt.lst2, error -36 (i/o error, bad media?). These files, obviously, aren't getting backed up. Norton Utilities doesn't show anything amiss on the hard drive, and I've run other utilities as well. I have dumped preferences, reinstalled Retrospect (along with the ADK v1.8 and Driver Update 2.1), swapped out media, and recreated my backup scripts. The computer works great, except for this little problem. Looking at the restore options, the snapshots look fine, and I can restore files, even from the backups that are generating errors. But still, I get this error every morning...and that makes me nervous. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Search: http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/ For urgent issues, please contact Dantz technical support directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 925.253.3050.
