Retrospect Experts:
It was mentioned recently on this list that using a too-slow network
connection for remote client backups could cause a DAT drive to sit idle
waiting for data, thus resulting in excessive "shoeshining" of the tape
heads. In the Retrospect log entry, "Total performance: XX.X M
In addition to my regular backups I would like a particular type of file
to backed up separately as well.
I know I can select based on type and creator, but I would like to copy
those particular files to a tape as files, not into a backup set.
Does anybody know how to do this .
Thanks
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A. Lest
Most of the computers that I back up are Macs but I have one Windows
2000 client that constantly logs the following errors. This client is
idle when backups run. Should I be worried about this? Any
suggestions?
-1/13/2001 10:00:38 PM: Copying DRIVE C (C:) on ASTEROID
1/13/2001 10:00:3
For some in-depth info on shoe-shining (aka backhitching), which affects
the performance of many different kinds of tape drives (including DDS,
DLT, Mammoth, and others), check out
http://www.vxa.com/tour/tour2-home.html
If you have Real streaming video, you'll be able to see some video
footage
I'm running Retro 4.3 on my work Mac to backup the network.
Unfortunately it seems to take up all the network capacity on my
machine, which leads to timeout problems with network clients such as
4D Client and Eudora. Is there any way I can throttle back Retro from
100% to say 90% of network ca
