I have been having numerous problems backing up 5 remote machines
when using Retrospect.
My Retrospect backup system is set up on a Macintosh Server 8550 with
96 megs of Ram 16 Gigs of hard drive space. I am using a Sony AIT
tape drive. I am using Retrospect 4.2. This location has 512kps DSL.
In order to speed up the backup during the week (it is taking 12-14
hours to back our site up to our Travan 5 drive), I hit upon the idea
of buying a Promax Ultra ATA DMA/33 PCI card and a 25 gig IBM
deskstar drive (total cost about $475 including delivery) and using
that as the backup
Reply to: RE: using large hard disk as backup desitination
Wade,
Up until Mac OS 9, the maximum file size was 2 GB. Now that Apple has
lifted that limit, we need to change Retrospect to reflect that new
capability. We'll probably be doing this in our next release.
That will be
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:
