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> might get me out of my bind of diminishing backup space.
> Cheers Gordon.
#1. add selectors to make sure not to backup things like netscape/ie temp
files.
#2. seems kind of obvious, but buy a new tape drive that has more space.
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> Jeff
The obvious place: Apple.com
http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11838?OpenDocument
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It is actually LARGER in compressed format!
Just wanted to clarify that statement lest anyone become enamored with the
idea that all graphic files compress well.
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get into the encryption business?) with is unbreakable in anything more than
that. I would guess that SimpleCrypt is just some weak XOR or something.
Also, security through obscurity is a terrible thing.
The right thing to do here is to have pluggable security. End of s
not sure the exact date it was cracked, but the AES (next generation
replacement for DES) proposals have already been decided.
http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/
RIJNDAEL won.
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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.
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> up systems on this scale?
Hell yes.
Retro is just as easy to use on a small network as a large one.
You just need to scale your hardware appropriately. In other words, don't
backup a 100 person network to a cd-r using a 6
drive, it can backup the whole
tomato in one night, and recovery is a piece of cake. The only question I
have to ask someone requesting an old file is, "Which day?"
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t; What is listed as the offending call in MacsBug?
You would ask me that. I'll have to check post-Christmas.
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backups of wireless clients, you'd
be much better of setting up the AirPort as a bridge instead of a NAT
router. We backup several laptops this way, and it works well...though it
does hammer the wireless bandwidth pretty hard!
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this sort of behavior? Sure, I could disable the event handler script, but
it's quite nice to have status reports emailed to me.
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on 12/18/2000 6:30 PM, "Scott Ponzani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any way to search the archives by keyword?
>
> (Sorry if I missed something obvious.)
http://www.mail-archive.com/retro-talk%40latchkey.com/
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>
> Is this chart in error?
The filesystem itself is no longer limited to 2Gb file sizes, but parts of
the guts of Mac OS 9 are still limited, which means that Mac OS 9 is
effectively limited to 2Gb file sizes.
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ether any are being dropped or
> whether there is an excessive number of collisions.
>
> Regards, Ted
Etherpeek does this exceptionally well.
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both unfriendly and inaccurate, not to mention off-topic.
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's dying. I suspect it is a preference file, but I'd rather use
the sharpshooter approach rather than the shotgun approach.
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Every night when the Retrospect backup gets to "88 files remaining, 12.0 Mb"
on the system volume of my ASIP server, the ASIP server dies. How can I find
out what file Retrospect is reading (or attempting to read) when this
happens? Is there a way to get file-by-file info in the log?
We've discussed many a time on this list the memory handling of Retrospect,
the way it uses system heap, etc. but I don't recall any discussion about
the client. Does it use system heap? Is it better to have VM off or on? Does
it matter?
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r.
> Anyone having any luck running the tool on beige Macs?
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.
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the ASIP server mounted on the iMac desktop, FMP Server
can dump the databases to the server where they'll be backed up by
Retrospect there; otherwise, you could load the Retrospect Client on the
iMac and back it up directly.
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> in the window.
Yeah, it works great for me. Be sure that no other programs are running that
might be accessing the SCSI devices (like, for example, Retrospect).
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ol, Geoff! Hey, it sorta looks like a good ol' command-line UNIX
utility...just perfect for Mac OS X. So, hey, Dantz folks, when can we start
beta-testing Retrospect X?
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cation server
> and how well it would fit?
I'm using Retrospect on a Mac to backup a MetaFrame server to VXA tape.
Works great. Just be sure to run the registry backup service on the NT box.
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te necessarily;
if you have another building, or even just a server on the other side of the
same building, that will get you a little more security. The farther the
physical separation, the better.
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do a recycle backup to it over the weekend (takes anywhere from
24-36 hours, typically) with normal backups every evening.
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> come up and I'm not able to do so manually.)
Yeah, except our ASIP server is our main webserver, email server, and
fileserver, and it hits our database server using Tango for live info from
the database. It all has to be up 24x7.
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a to it via FTP or AFS, and yes the data
will be compressed. I use an FTP server with a big hard drive as my offsite
backup.
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be a much better
backup server.
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solved that problem?
Well, somebody must have forgotten to tell my server about it, 'cuz it works
great as a Retrospect client. Now, I wouldn't recommend using an ASIP server
as a Retrospect *server* for performance reasons, but some people are even
doing that successfully.
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have one SCSI card, then the
187Mb/min is probably the boot drive. Am I right?
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Monday, "Recycle" backup on Monday night, and "Normal" backups
Tuesday through Saturday nights. We give the tape drive Sunday off. ;)
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'd start off with an Ecrix VXA drive instead...it'll easily hold all of
your data on one tape with room for the probable expansion you mentioned,
and it's cheaper than a DDS4.
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to worry about it, and everybody likes the
way it looks. We run a 13-week rotation, so I'm paying a grand total
of...big ouch, more math in the head...$273 more for VXA tapes than I would
for DDS-3 tapes.
Obviously, this is a personal call that depends on your particular needs,
but it's
et into a
VXA drive with a few tapes for $600-$700 and have an immediate 33-66Gb
single-tape backup capacity. You'll pay about twice that much for a DDS
equivalent, and more for anything else.
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ognizes as an
> application.
The Retrospect client, since it's a control panel, is probably going through
the Finder to display the dialog, so you might try disabling Okey Dokey for
the Finder.
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o, we never have to shuttle tapes back and forth for the offsite backup,
and a week's worth of local backups fits on one VXA tape. It all adds up to
a major decrease in the hassle factor of our backup strategy, and it didn't
cost much at all. That makes me happy, plus it impresses my
than twice as fast as our DDS-3 drive.
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on 7/24/2000 6:25 AM, Ken Gillett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does it send the email all by itself or does it simply control an
> email application such as Eudora?
>
It writes a text file (with appropriate SMTP headers) into the SIMS outgoing
mail folder, and SIMS sends it out.
ot;normal"
backup. This will erase all existing contents of a backup set.
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one wants a copy of The Pinger, email me off-list and I'll
send it to you.
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iDisk, username jlg.
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#x27;s job to handle the dialup connection
settings, including enabling/disabling automatic dialing. The other software
on the machine should not have to know or care what sort of Internet
connection is available.
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c OS. If the Mac is set to use a
network time server, check for software updates, or do any of a myriad of
other built-in Internet-based activities, then it will try to establish a
connection. That's exactly why the Remote Access setup has the option to
force a manual connection.
<&
you all, don't be stupid and setup vacation messages.
they are annoying and generally never work properly.
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about 160Mb/min to the VXA and
80Mb/min to the DDS-3.
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r...it's on a
different bus.
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unix client for other OS's will be in the works? :-)
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Newer's, not to mention the fact that they had Mac OS 9 support several
months before Newer.
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I love people who don't bother to read the emails that they send.
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on 5/31/2000 10:17 AM, Retrospect at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've have horrible error 519 problems with 2 beige G3's now (REV. A) and I
> was wondering if there are any list archives that I could se
;
Try and disable software compression. I has slow copy speeds until I
disabled software compression. I had assumed Retrospect would detect the
VXA's native hardware compression, and ignore software compression. My
speeds tripled after turning software compression off.
Jon Opl
on 5/18/2000 8:36 AM, Daniel Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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...
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oesn't allow them to be read by any other process. Retrospect has
an NT service that is able to create static copies of these files so that
the backup process can access "clean" versions of them. The Retrospect
documentation details the proper steps necessary for restoring an NT box,
bu
I am getting much better performance from my VXA1 drive now. Manually
disabling software compression (Retrospect is supposed to know if hardware
compression is available, but this does not work in my case), and replacing
a faulty ribbon cable in my external scsi case eliminated most of the
proble
st before the Retrospect script is set to run.
It's all built-in. Ours does it every night at 8:00 or something.
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you purchased it didn't you?
Also you can always use the net to RTFM... ;-)
<http://www.skydatacorp.com/products/product_pdfs/skydat.pdf>
google.com is your friend...learn to use it. ;-)
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without it.
>
>I took Retrospect off my server. I prefer separation of services. I didn't
>have any problems but lots of people did. I believe Jon Gardner who watches
>this list can give you greater insight on Retrospect/ASIP.
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BTW, I tried running Retrospect on the ASIP server, and when I arived the
next morning, my server had locked up...no files had been backed up. Is
this a known issue with ASIP 6.2?
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SAMBA and DAVE to backup my UNIX boxes if needed.
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ust a bunch
of pretty lights and colorful wires?). Also, file permissions are nice to
have, but I'd much rather have a backed-up file with no permissions than no
file at all.
:)
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be
running a client on the other machine.
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t would
be a much more functional backup, allowing you to select individual IMAP
folders and messages for restore instead of the entire mail database.
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;-)
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Run Samba on the UNIX boxes to provide SMB filesharing. You can then mount
the shared drives on the NT box (if that's your backup platform) or buy DAVE
for the Mac OS and use that to mount the UNIX and NT drives on the Mac in
order to back them up using Retro
utions or have any suggestions?
Sigh...maybe *someday* Dantz will get a clue and realize the Unix market is
only growing and growing and growing and growing and will support it with at
least a Client. ;-)
I have been asking for one fo
standard and an LVD hookup. You can't
mix LVD devices on HVD chains or vice versa.
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> Regards,
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Hey, Caroline...Sonia's on maternity leave and her auto-responder is
flooding our list. Or is this just a subtle hint that we should get her a
ect 4.2
Set up a server script in FileMaker Pro to backup the databases just before
the Retrospect backup is supposed to happen. Retro will be able to read the
backup files, since they won't be open.
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SuMTWThFSa. This has bitten me several times, to the
point that my weekend backups don't go to tapes anymore, but only to FTP
backup sets.
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ience this may
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> bad ram. Thoughts?
Reinstall the Retrospect client. I had an OS problem at one point that we
fixed by reloading the OS, and afterward Retro would crash the server.
Reinstalling the client fixed it.
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n in the
prefs. As it stands now, I have to babysit the backup server, and I
shouldn't have to do that with an enterprise-level product.
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l on the ASIP
server, and if you use Rebound! or similar auto-restart hardware, you'll
want to set the timeout period to at least 15 minutes (mine's at 30) to
ensure that the tickler won't timeout due to the overhead of the backup.
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dismiss them! I get bitten by this problem on a weekly basis.
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rt for the software.
In other words...if you are having a problem with the software you should
contact Dantz first. Their tech support is first rate.
<http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=how_to_contact_cs_and_ts>
Just friendly a reminder. I hope you all have a great new year
ifferent about a file, it gets backed up.
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on 12/6/1999 2:23 PM, Jon Gardner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We've had similar odd problems with an identical unit, and from recent posts
> on the list I'm wondering if perhaps we should apply the latest firmware
> update. It requires a PC with a SCSI card, of course...
his seems to have alleviated our
problems. I'll know within a week whether or not it's completely fixed,
because we've been getting a "lost access to media" error at some point
every week.
The firmware update fix might cure problems with other drives as well, but I
can only sp
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