Re: Password Protection

2000-11-07 Thread Phil Geller
I have a client who wants to secure only some personnel files, but not everything, so anyone on the staff can restore their own files should they need to. But the secured files could only be restored using a password. It sounds like Retrospects security applies to the entire Backup Set or the Retr

Backing up a remote site over DSL

2000-11-07 Thread Phil Geller
How feasible is it to backup a remote office over a DSL line? A client has a backup server at their main office and a remote site with 3 Macs. Each office has DSL. Assuming we can get through the firewalls, and get static IPs at the remote site, is it just a matter of entering the remote IPs in

RE: Backing up a remote site over DSL

2000-11-07 Thread Craig Isaacs
> How feasible is it to backup a remote office over a DSL line? A > client has > a backup server at their main office and a remote site with 3 Macs. Each > office has DSL. Assuming we can get through the firewalls, and get static > IPs at the remote site, is it just a matter of entering the re

Retro.Startup Extension (Mac)

2000-11-07 Thread Mark
Retrospect Gurus: In patching some Retro.Startup Extensions so that Retrospect will function automatically behind the "BlackWatch" password-protected screen saver, I find that although Retrospect 4.2 is in use on every target machine, the Extension can vary anywhere from (and between) version 3.0

Error 541- Backup client not installed or not running

2000-11-07 Thread Kraut, David
I get this error quite a bit but it is intermittent? One night backups may work fine and the next night I may get this error on one of my volumes? We are using a central backup server with an HP Surestore 818 Library attached. The backup server is a 600Mhz NT4 Server with 256MB of RAM and plenty

Re: Backing up a remote site over DSL

2000-11-07 Thread Edmund A. Hintz
On 11/7/00 8:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus spake: >How feasible is it to backup a remote office over a DSL line? A client has >a backup server at their main office and a remote site with 3 Macs. Each >office has DSL. Assuming we can get through the firewalls, and get static >IPs at the remote

Re: Password Protection

2000-11-07 Thread Edmund A. Hintz
On 11/7/00 7:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus spake: >I have a client who wants to secure only some personnel files, but not >everything, so anyone on the staff can restore their own files should they >need to. But the secured files could only be restored using a password. It >sounds like Retrospect

RE: Backing up a remote site over DSL

2000-11-07 Thread Craig Isaacs
> >I do it, but it's slow. > > > >I think the best way to accomplish the task would be to do a > duplicate from > >the source drive to a local drive, and then back up the local drive. > > If the slow speed is a result of the connection speed, this won't > save time will it? Because it's so slow,

RE: Backing up a remote site over DSL

2000-11-07 Thread Edmund A. Hintz
On 11/7/00 3:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus spake: > >(BTW -- if it were me with three computers, I would probably put a tape >drive on one of the computers and have the reports sent to me via email so I >could monitor the status of the backups. I just do this with one computer -- >mine -- with a