Re: Hourly Network Checks Revisited...

2000-09-28 Thread Nicholas Froome
Irena said: Here's a little background on how the Retrospect client deals with network connectivity, so we can better understands why this is happening and how it might be addressed. The Retrospect client does in fact initiate a check of the network once an hour. It sends a request to Open

clones

2000-09-28 Thread Nicholas Froome
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. Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and CD-ROM

Re: clones

2000-09-28 Thread Scott Ponzani
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. Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and CD-ROM

Filemaker/Retrospect Applescript

2000-09-28 Thread Garret J. Cleversley
Does anyone happen to have an applescript already built to close filemaker dB's so they can backed up and the reopen after the backup is complete. I do two nightly scripts and what I'd like to have this happen: Filemaker/Retrospect are on the same machine. Applescript to quit filemaker dB's at

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-28 Thread David Ross
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. Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and CD-ROM

Re: Filemaker/Retrospect Applescript

2000-09-28 Thread Irena Solomon
Hi Garret, We do! There is a FileMaker Pro Toggle script in the Retrospect Folder (Retrospect: AppleScript Utilities: Script Examples: FileMaker Pro Server Toggle). For more information on AppleScripts and Retrospect in general, see page 191 of the Retrospect 4.2 User's Guide. Regards, Irena

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-28 Thread Todd Reed
The VXA isn't on a PPC as the backup server. The PPC is only a workbench I'm using to test the drive. I'm trying to figure out why the device is always blowing up in use with hardware sense code failures or stuck tapes. This is the second drive we've gotten from Ecrix. The backup system is a

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-28 Thread Matt Barkdull
Yep. And most used the 7200 as the basis for that equivalency. And the 7200 was Apple's answer to Packard Bell. lol. The don't wanna-be Performa? 7200 as built was as stable as anything else. It earned it's bad reputation based soley off of the fact that it was hard to upgrade. For it's

Retrospect port number/protocol use details

2000-09-28 Thread Andrew Cook
Hi, I've moved my retrospect server (WinNT) behind a firewall, but some of my clients are still in the unprotected wasteland needing backup. To limit the holes I put in my firewall to allow this, I need some details about retrospect's port/protocol usage. The manual says that retrospect uses

Re: clones

2000-09-28 Thread Seth D. Mattinen
on 9/28/00 8:00 PM, retro-talk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and CD-ROM drives to a cheaper 3rd party though. I had a customer that had a Power Computing PPC. Equivalent