I upgraded our Retrospect 4.3 server, a G3/300 desktop, to Mac OS 9.1, and
everything seems to be working just fine. It's backing up my PowerBook G3,
also running Mac OS 9.1, as I type.
Jon L. Gardner '89, Computer Systems Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Texas AM University Dept. of Food
on 12/30/00 7:45 PM, matt barkdull at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dealing with ArcServe, you probably have a good idea of how you want
the backups to go. Retrospect is a lot easier to set up to do what
you want it to do.
I'll second that. I used ArcServe at my last job, and while it did the
on 12/22/00 6:16 PM, Jeffrey Travis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody know of a workaround for getting Retrospect clients to
work on an Apple Airport network that uses a software base station?
The Apple Airport site says that Retrospect may not work with NAT,
used by the Airport
on 12/22/00 12:21 PM, Steve Axthelm at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I set up a Retrospect Event Handler script, based directly on
one of the supplied examples, and the script causes the computer to drop
into MacsBug on a regular basis at the end of backups.
What is listed as the offending call
I'm running Mac OS 9.0.4, Retrospect 4.3, on a G3/300 desktop dedicated to
Retrospect. I set up a Retrospect Event Handler script, based directly on
one of the supplied examples, and the script causes the computer to drop
into MacsBug on a regular basis at the end of backups. Has anyone else seen
on 12/15/00 11:05 AM, Eric Ullman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to Apple's Tech Info Library article #15460, "AppleShare File
Sharing: Chart of All Limitations," last modified 11/17/2000, ASIP 6.x still
has a 2GB file size limit.
http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n15460
on 11/17/00 4:51 AM, Rich Grenyer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got to implement overnight backups for 31 Macs, 5 iBooks and 3
PCs, across a 10MBit LAN on a weekly basis (approximately 22.5 GB
storage transferred a night) What am I going to need in the way of
server capabilities (I'd like
on 10/25/00 12:12 PM, Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hard reality is that the Mac itself is relegated to virtually "niche"
utility.
Another hard reality is that Mac users are *very much* a minority, compared
to Windows users.
If you were in a business to market
on 10/17/00 11:42 AM, Matt Barkdull at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have the mail function of ASIP running?
Do you have a filter set in Retrospect to not backup the mail folder?
I can guaranty that if you are trying to backup that folder, that's
where it is locking up. Mine did the
on 9/26/00 9:00 PM, Todd Reed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has any one had any luck using the VXA tool on a Mac? My version just
bombs with some cryptic error that it can't find the target. Doesn't
crash, but doesn't find the drive either though the drive is listed
in the window.
Yeah, it
on 9/27/00 4:18 PM, Todd Reed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ecrix is telling me that the tool has problems running on older Macs.
I'm using a beige Power Computer 150 mhz system and the built-in SCSI.
The tool is noting that it's using the asynchronous SCSI manager.
Anyone having any luck
on 9/14/2000 8:49 AM, jakob krabbe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We use a 13-tape rotation. We swap tapes during the day on Monday, full
(recycle) backup on Monday night, normal backups Tue-Sat nights. In
addition, we have an FTP server offsite with one FTP backup set on it. Every
two weeks we
on 9/18/2000 1:08 PM, Daniel Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're looking into a Citrix MetaFrame Windows application server for our
network. I'd prefer to avoid the DAT backups the bidders are recommending
and use Retrospect. Anyone familiar with the MetaFrame application server
and how
on 9/14/2000 7:57 AM, jakob krabbe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, which tape of the week do you save? I have two "monday tapes" that I
cyckle and I'm planning to increase that to four tapes... I'm still in
backup-tune-in-mode and I have a feeling mondays are not the best days...??
What
on 8/17/2000 6:35 AM, Daniel Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By shutting down these programs, we don't have to worry about live
databases and other files not getting backed up. (I also have QuicKeys
set to relaunch ASIP and FMPro Server at about 7:30 a.m. should something
come up and I'm
on 8/16/2000 3:06 PM, Matt Barkdull at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Back up rates differ using: G4/ 400, DDS-4, shared 10Base-T Ethernet. 80
MB/min on first volume, 187 MB/min on second volume, and 93 MB/ min on
third. All three volumes on server. What would cause the difference in the
speed?
on 8/16/2000 2:01 PM, jakob krabbe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're looking into getting an AppleShare IP server for filesharing and it
has brought to my attention that an ASIP server cannot be used as a
Retrospect client!
Is that true and if so, how have you guys solved that problem?
on 8/15/2000 7:44 AM, jakob krabbe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe I don't need five storagesets? I've read somewhere one will do... I
use VXA 170 meter tapes. What am I missing??
How much data are you backing up? We use one VXA tape per week. A new tape
goes in on Monday, "Recycle" backup
on 8/9/2000 9:55 PM, Adrian Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* DAT Tape drive - DDS3 or DDS4 attached to a PowerMac 7300, probably
Sony (or LaCie which I think uses a Sony mechanism), no particular
reason to go with Sony.
* Retrospect 4.3 with clients on each of the Macs.
I'd start off
on 6/2/2000 12:06 PM, Matthew Tevenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is possible with both Retrospect for Macintosh and Windows. See p. 193
of the Retrospect 4.2 User's Guide for information on how to do this with
AppleScript and Retrospect for Mac. See p. 12 of the Retrospect 5.1 User's
on 8/1/2000 10:32 AM, Steve Rothman at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
(The only single-tape solution
in my price range is VXA, which sounds very nice, but there is NO WAY
I will go with a new, single-vendor solution...)
You really have to look at risk vs. cost in this case. You can get into a
VXA
on 7/27/2000 10:42 AM, John Mulligan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okey Dokey has the option of remaining inactive in specific apps I would
like to arrange it so that Retrospect Client dialogs are ignored. However,
I cannot locate any Retrospect file that Okey Dokey recognizes as an
on 7/25/2000 3:07 AM, Larry Acosta Wong at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, which is the winner? For me, I'm torn between the VXA-1 and
AIT-1. The PC Mag article made the VXA-1 look pretty bad but I'm
thinking that it's just relative and that the performance numbers for
the AIT-1 would be pretty
on 7/24/2000 1:34 PM, Robert Cooper at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking into DLT vs DDS for a tape library. I went and read the old
posts on the Ecrix and Mammoth DLT drives. I was wondering what the user
experience has been with them now, since it has been some months since these
on 7/21/2000 4:26 PM, Dan Willson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Head this way and check out Christian Vick's iDisk Mounter v1.7:
ftp://io.com/%2Fpub/usr/gregg0/scripts/iDiskMounter1.7.hqx
Nope, iDisk Mounter only works with your own iDisk...it won't mount public
iDisks. If anyone wants a copy
on 7/2/2000 12:50 PM, Ken Gillett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I still maintain that NO software should cause unrequested
dialups, I'm sorry if you don't agree...snip...My original point
was that you can stop a Mac from dialing up.
Exactly so. It is the PPP client's job to handle the
on 6/29/2000 6:26 AM, Ken Gillett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This seems to be curing the symptom, not the route cause of the
problem. Why are they trying to dial out, there must be a reason?
This is not normal Mac behaviour, WiNT maybe, but not Mac. Find out
what is causing them to attempt
on 4/26/2000 6:30 PM, steve menard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to know what Backup Solutions are available to Backup both Mac
ASIP NT servers?
Can Retrospect Mac or PC do the job for both?
IF so, what is the Disaster Recovery procedure to get up and running?
Must we
on 4/17/2000 1:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran a backup on a test database and the backup ran without any errors
(while FileMaker was still running). I was then able to restore the
database from tape and open it -- no problems, but FileMaker Server was
never
on 3/8/2000 3:00 PM, Matthew Tevenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Retrospect cannot back up live Exchange servers. Nor can you restore
individual mailboxes or messages from a full Exchange backup. We are looking
into offering an "agent" to back up live Exchange servers (as I suspect Brad
must
on 2/29/2000 9:23 AM, Ronnie Livingston at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I just found out that the DLT8000 is Ultra2 HVD. Will LVD and HVD not work
together? Does anyone know off hand what SCSI card from Adaptec I will need
to buy to make this work?
I think the 2940U2W card has both a standard
on 2/28/2000 12:14 PM, Sonia Santana Ford at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for your message. Please note that I am currently on Maternity
Leave and cannot respond to your message. In my absence, you can contact
Caroline Cho via phone or e-mail for assistance. Her e-mail address and
on 2/25/2000 4:33 PM, Aaron Kopel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am wanting to back up FileMaker Pro 5 databases that are hosted on
a WINNT machine. I was curious as to some other people's strategies.
I am running into the "file open" problem. We are using retrospect 4.2
Set up a server
on 2/22/2000 5:23 AM, Robert Staflin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, every Friday I've set up a recycle backup, spanning four sets of
tapes (for four weeks between recycling of one set), and then I do normal
backups Saturday through Thursday. I set the normal backups as starting
the same
I have to revisit this topic on a regular basis, because it bites me on a
very frequent basis. Retrospect's error dialogs, such as "lost access to
media" or "storage set out of sync", just stop Retrospect dead in its
tracks. OkeyDokey won't dismiss the dialogs, and Retrospect has no "dismiss
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