Re: AIT drives

2000-03-09 Thread jakob krabbe
AIT = Advanced Intelligent Tape. 1. I belive this have been discussed before, but please correct me if I'm wrong when I say Retrospect doesn't take advantage of the chiptechnology inside those tapes. 2. Would it be wise (possible??) to cycle those tapes in six or eight week periods? (We have

KVM Switchboxes and Backup Server

2000-03-09 Thread Greg Jewett
All.. Is anyone else out there using Belkin OmniView Pro KVM (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) switch-boxes with their Mac and PC Backup Servers, as well as other servers? Some background -- At Motorola, we have a large investment in these switch-boxes, to control all of our servers in the racks that

RE: Restore and error -37 bug

2000-03-09 Thread O'Donnell, Dan (NBC)
DId you figure out what the offending character is? -Original Message- From: Rees Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 4:28 AM To: retro-talk Subject: Restore and error -37 bug Dear All, In performing a restore of a backed up Macintosh I

Re: AIT drives

2000-03-09 Thread Erik Ableson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 03:24:17PM +0100, jakob krabbe wrote: AIT = Advanced Intelligent Tape. 1. I belive this have been discussed before, but please correct me if I'm wrong when I say Retrospect doesn't take advantage of the chiptechnology inside those tapes. Currently Retrospect does

Re: AIT drives

2000-03-09 Thread Ted Baker
Does anyone have any experience with the LaCie AIT 35 GB/70 GB drives? I've been using an APS 35/70 AIT drive for ~5 months now on a biege desktop 266MHz G3 running MacOS 9 Retrospect 4.1 (now 4.2) to do nightly backups on 24 disks on 12 Macs 2 PC's with zero problems from the tape drive. At