Re: Throttling back Retro on a Mac
Retro is backing up Clients (mostly) tho it does back up a server as well. My Mac (a G3) is running 4D Client, not Server. Owen, Are you backing up network data via the Retrospect remote clients or by mounting drives? If you are using the clients, you could try throttling back the backup priority on the clients. You can also try switching to Appletalk protocol for remote backups. Other things to consider Maybe its time to upgrade your sever or put Retrospect on a separate machine. The problems you are encountering could be directly related to overworking an under-powered machine. 4D Server requires a fair amount of horsepower (I recommend running it on a dedicated machine). Hope this helps At 7:07 PM +1300 2/7/01, Owen Watson wrote: I'm running Retro 4.3 on my work Mac to backup the network. Unfortunately it seems to take up all the network capacity on my machine, which leads to timeout problems with network clients such as 4D Client and Eudora. Is there any way I can throttle back Retro from 100% to say 90% of network capacity? Putting Retro in the background knocks it back too much: it would be nice to have a bit more control over how much network capacity is taten. -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand Don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ Philip Chonacky, IT 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/ 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. -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand Don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- 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.
Throttling back Retro on a Mac
I'm running Retro 4.3 on my work Mac to backup the network. Unfortunately it seems to take up all the network capacity on my machine, which leads to timeout problems with network clients such as 4D Client and Eudora. Is there any way I can throttle back Retro from 100% to say 90% of network capacity? Putting Retro in the background knocks it back too much: it would be nice to have a bit more control over how much network capacity is taten. -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand Don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- 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.
Mac files restored to Windows 98 PC?
I was converting someone from Mac to PC and was wondering whether Mac files, when restored by Retro 4.3 to a W98 client, would have the illegal chars filtered out. I can deal with the usual /?* by pre-processing but there's some other chars that seem to choke PCs that I can't get rid of. -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- 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
What are you talking about?? Do you want Retrospect, the back-up company, to log *every single move* on all backed up computers and save that in an unlimited log so you can see what you (or anyone) did "over the past years"?? 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). -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- 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
I totally disagree: even ignoring the multi-user aspect, can you remember everything you've done over the last few years? Do you want to? I want a clear indication that a backup set that I am restoring from is incomplete. Owen, I understand your frustration here but it seems that you're asking software developers to include notifications or "backdoors" or whatever you want to call it to cover every possible situation that a user might run in to. Plainly put, you're asking that this developer put in a "feature" that will tell you if someone's been tinkering around in your machine. -- ..... Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- 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.
Feature suggestion: missing member notification
I wish there was a bit more in the way of visual clues/notification when there were missing storage set members. Why? I wanted to restore a computer using the Snapshot facility. I set it up, got it going, and it seemed a lot fewer files than there should be. I mucked around, and eventually found that one of the backup set members was marked as Missing (someone else had played round with my machine). I marked it as unmissing (!), and got everything back OK. At no stage was there any (prominent) feedback that it was missing in the Restore process. What I'd suggest that if someone is restoring, there should be a few alerts (or at least a couple of BLINK type messages) that it could be incomplete. Also, it would be useful if it could be indicated in the backup set list some sort of incomplete icon for a missing set, plus a text message. Here endeth the suggestion. . . -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- 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: Network communication failed - a hint
The "network communication failed" message was seen in the network browser Retro 4.3 Mac, when i went to configure the remote: the first two panes were OK, but the last one (Volumes) failed with the aforesaid error message. Thanks for the other info: the Tech Note was useful. Hi Owen, The "nothing in the container" error message would definitely be caused by the user excluding all volumes. Not the 519, network communication failed, though. I just quickly tested this with both an immediate and scripted backup from both Retrospect 4.3 Mac and 5.11 Windows. No problems. Here's basically all you should be seeing: +Normal Backup using Untitled at 8/10/2000 1:01 PM To backup set Backup Set D 8/10/2000 1:01:26 PM: Connected to Matt/Toshiba *Container Matt/Toshiba was empty (had no volumes) 8/10/2000 1:01:26 PM: Execution completed successfully Quit at 8/10/2000 1:01 PM Sorry, but there's something else going on here. Check out Dantz Tech Note 415 at http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=tn415 and if you can't resolve the 519 with the help of that, e-mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Matthew Tevenan Technical Support Specialist Dantz Development Corporation 925.253.3050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ..... Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network communication failed - a hint
I had a client that was showing up as "nothing in the container" and "network communication failed" when you went into the Remotes browser. I checked on the client, and what he'd done was put the whole hard disk as a private area (by mistake). I checked the docs, and a cursory glance didn't reveal this as a posible cause of the error messages. Over to you, Dantz! -- ..... Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opinions about DDS4?
Don't know about DDS4, but DDS3 has been great after having the same problems as you with DDS2. . . Can anyone who's been using DDS-4 with a Mac for Retrospect Network backup comment about reliability and maintenance? -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WIN: Client and Remote both on view
On some of my Win (NT 95/98) machines I've got both Client and Remote on view in the Control Panels. How do I get rid of the older one? -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
User licences not recycling
I'm having problems recycling user licences. I remove an unused license by going to the Clients list and choosing Forget. . . Then when I go to setting up a new client, and put in the old reg no, it comes up about the licence being already in use. ??? -- . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why won't Retrospect autorun?
Occasionally (often when I'm away) Retrospect (latest version) won't start up automatically on my Mac. No lack of memory. When I do launch Retro on these occasions it then happily does its scripts, but why is the autolaunch so erratic? Yes, I do have it turned on. . . . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cobalt
I asked our ISP about them, and he said he'd tested them and didn't do very well under load. I think he used a load of the thin Sun rackmounts in the end. Are there anyone out there using the cool Cobalt servers? I have looked into the NASRaQ, Network Area Storage, in a rack format, to use as a fileserver in a mac + pc shared network. . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backing up server devices
I'm talking about devices such as Quantum's SnapServer, which offer storage space for Mac/Win/Unix clients. I assume that if I want a Mac server to back one up, I have to make it all Mac-mountable. Anyone with experience of these? . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backing up Mac volume on NT server under Client
I'm backing up some Access databases that are on a NT Server that has them on a Mac-accessible volume just as a Client operation rather than mounting them on my desktop. Is there any problem with this if the files are PC-only? I do get a warning on the log. . . . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Win backup selection - more than docs, less than all?
We've just moved from a DDS2 to a DDS3 drive (phew!) and I'm wondering how to fill up the extra space. . . previously, we just backed up the documents folder on Windows machines, so I'm wondering if there's a useful midpoint between this selection and All Files. Also: a TAN, but worth an ask: we often get network errors during a backup that cause chaos elsewhere on the network; the network can be unclogged by resetting our Asante FS4008 (?) ethernet switch. I've swapped the switch out with another one with a reasonable difference between manufacturing dates, but the errors continue. I've checked the usual sources, but can't find any complaints about this switch, so it must be some subtle interplay between the switch and something else that causes the problems. Any suggestions? . Owen Watson at home in Wellington, New Zealand -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
