Re: Advice requested: tape system
Graham Mitchell said: I am therefore looking for an economical, reliable tape based solution that can handle the job. I've read discussions about using IDE drives. You can get 40 GB drives for around $200. At that price, you can get five drives, use one to write your backups to and then swap it out replacing it with the next hard drive. I imagine that on Windoze you could even arrange for them to be hot swap-able. I imagine it would be pretty fast, too. EZ -- Eric Zylstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Retro Speed
I apologize for reopening a dead thread on the list, but I just wanted to share. Running Retrospect 4.2 on a Quadra 950 with 40 MB RAM over built-in ethernet to our ASIP server, I get 13-16 MB/min. Having moved Retrospect and the tape drive over to the server* (after addressing stability concerns) and upgrading to 4.3, I get 25-40 MB/min. *PowerMac 9500/132 Using Seagate Travan tape drive (using byte-by-byte confirmation for safety) Tape drive connected to external built-in SCSI interface Initio Miles 40 MB/sec SCSI card 7200 RPM Atlas III drives Michael Scheurer wrote: on 17/8/2000 4:27 AM, Matt Barkdull wrote: Using the built in 10BaseT- 62MB/min Using an Asante 10/100 at 100 - 112MB/min. I wish I could get anywhere near this, mine tops out of about 40Mb/min even an a G4, mind you it's only a 2606 SCSI card with DDS3 drives, even with built-in SCSI on a 7300 I don't get above 40. :( In theory I should be getting 60Mb/min coming from our old NT server as I can get 1Mb/sec copying from it. -- Eric Zylstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freezes in Mac while backing up....
Andrew Stein said: The backup run of any script ( or any backup attempt at all) will freeze at a random point during execution, with the software running and the tape drive read light off, and remain so forever. If the system is loaded without extensions, everything works fine, the script run perfectly. I have seen this kind of problems when I had one or more files with corrupted resource forks on the ASIP server. It would choke either at the time of backing up the corrupted file or shortly after the backup completed. Check with DiskWarrior and/or Norton Utilities to locate any such files and then either trash the outright or try to repair them by opening them up with ResEdit (usually doesn't work). Brad Suinn, ASIP enginner, has posted a file to his iDisk that has a number of recommendations for making your server most stable (user name "Suinn"). It is quite worth the read. It has a section with regards to Retrospect. -- Eric Zylstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Client
GF requested: Hey Dantz, when will a Linux client be available? Obviously you are working on one... Of course, the current workaround is to have SMB or Netatalk running on your Linux/Un*x box so its volumes can be mounted on the backup server and backed up. -- Eric Zylstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Silly Newbie Questions
Ed Hintz wrote: Being that OS X has a rather incestuous relationship with NetBSD, and that Dantz is publicly working on OS X support, 'tis but a small step to NBSD and OBSD... One would hope such a step would take place, to be sure... Actually, it is FreeBSD that Apple has utilized for OS X: http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html Of course, I believe a reasonably bright programmer could create a cross Un*x platform solution, so it really would just be one product for Linix/BSD. I know if I get my way to set up an OpenBSD server, I'd love to have Retrospect backing it up. -- Eric Zylstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
