Actually this allows me to attach the tape drive to the power plug on
the back of the CPU so it shuts down with the system. Without the wait
it will power it off DURING the rewind.
Thomas Myers wrote:
This is a good example of when to use the asynchronous scsi calls. While the call
completes
It likely shows up with only those file types because they were
installed or optimized to be next to each other and that's the area
with the media failure.
Norton and it's cousins are not where near comprehensive in disk
testing. They do a reasonable job but disk failures can manifest
themselves
Neat trick. I wrote one of these in the prehistoric days of Interdata
and 5mb disk drives.
Joy Richards wrote:
I've been working with VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/) and would like to
ask if it's been evaluated with Retrospect in mind.
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What I have been doing:
I have setup the virtual pc folder (which contains the one huge file known
as the c drive to the pc world) as a separate subvolume. I then have one
script that backs up everything BUT the virtual pc folder and a different
script that runs once a month to backup just
I think this was just discussed but when I clicked the link for the archives
it just gave me a list and no way to search. Here's the short of it.
Restored drive, now virtual PC says it wasn't properly installed... Is there
a "proper" way to restore it? or am I stuck?
The installation of VPC
What would give better performance, a G3 upgrade to the 6100 or a 100
base T card. I can only do one since the 6100 only has one slot.
A 100 base T card in a NuBus adapter on a 6100 will only go about 4
times as fast as the 10baseT connection. The drivers, the bus, and the
6100 just aren't
Also have you:
1) Restarted the computer? This must be done at least once after you
first setup an automated run. I've run into this were computers tend to
be left on 24/7.
2) Have you looked at the preview so see what retrospect thinks should
be happening?
This really does work...honest.
What confuses me is that why don't the tape drive mfg write their
software to be recognized by Windows as a tape device and all
Retrospect would have to be able to do is read and write to that
device through the Windows library... Wait, that's what is suppose
to happen, no?
I doubt Dantz
A autosensing hub has a built-in 2 port switch. Any 100Mbps ports are repeated
together, as are the 10Mbps ports. The built in switch connects the 100Mb
group to the 10Mb group.
Which, by the way, creates an interesting problem when using a tool
such as EtherPeek to record Ethernet
But can SIMS collect from a POP3 account and redistribute to local
addresses as does FetchMail and ASIP is supposed to do (but you
cannot configure it properly so it's not a useful as it appears)?
Mailtron Gateway
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=2723
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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
You will need to go into each backup script and tell where the
storage set is now located as well. Important step. The backup will
not happen if you don't.
You can shortcut this by double clicking the files for the backup sets.
Select them all in the finder and double click. You'll get a
mmm. . . I think you've misunderstood me. All I'm wanting is an
indication that a set is incomplete either when I choose it from the
list of backup sets (by perhaps a broken icon or whatever) or when
the results of a restore are presented ie an alert saying "Not all
the possible files are
I am using Retrospect 4.3 for Mac with an Aiwa TD-8001 tape drive. The drive
has dual heads, apparently so that it can do read after write, eliminating
the need for the whole second verification run after the backup.
Does Retrospect support this feature? Read after write capability would
I am very familiar with how modem compression, network compression,
and file compression works. When I was going through school, one of
our projects was to write a compression algorythem and compress a
file (yes, it was a text file) the best we could. With my limited
math background, I was
I've seen this when the volume containing the catalogs is almost full
and the save after the backup is completed fails. Also if the directory
of this volume is corrupted.
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So Retrospect reports errors that it finds in the network setup that
doesn't affect ANYTHING else? If these errors existed then why does
nothing else complain?
Yet.
I copy large files from one machine to another, but that never fails
Yet.
That's taking a rather simplistic approach
Situation.
Some computers would be locked up in the morning when folks came in. It
appeared to be sleeping but couldn't be awakened.
I normally set all desktops to turn off at 5:30am to allow time for the
backup but have them off over weekends and holidays. (This is in
multiple offices.)
I
So I've been trying to remember to turn off the DEFAULT wait at shutdown
that you get when you install a client but is there a way out of this
when it does happen?
I found that you can type 'r' or 's' in the Retrospect Client's Wait at
Shutdown dialog and the computer will either
I know on macs that rebuilding a catalog from scratch is a long process
for one tape. Much less more than one.
I know that this sounds like the long way, but isn't it possible to start
from ground zero? I mean that if I start with a clean install of NT 4.0,
then install Retrospect, then have
DLT has not addressed that issue. Since linear pulls the tape across the
heads at a faster rate (150 inches per second vs helical scan's .5"/second),
it requires streaming -- otherwise you end up "shoe-shining". This
reposition is very intense on the heads/tape of a linear drive.
This
You may have already done this but have you powered everything off and
back on? These small tape drives are really computers with a very
limited user interface and to be honest things like this have a tendency
to have bugs in the error recovery process. Turning everything off and
back on my reset
Just in the last couple of days, one of my Windows clients has started
returning the following error message:
"Can't access volume DISK (C:) on WIN_CLIENT, error 5 (unknown)"
The client computer is running Windows 98 with Retro client 5.1 for
windows.
Anytime I have retro not finding a
Can someone at Dantz answer this please?
Thanks
David Ross wrote:
I know this has been answered here before but I can't find it in any of
the messages I've saved.
Is the data rate shown in the real time backup progress window the rate
at which data, compressed or not, is going
The performance is based on the raw number of MB transferred to the backup
device from the source volume.
BEFORE software compression?
I ask since as I understand it remote clients compress before shipping
to the Retrospect module that doing the writing to the device.
Thanks
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What's the scoop here? I've been running on the assumption that if I
lost a tape under mysterious circumstances that the information would
be unrecoverable.
Nothing is unrecoverable if you have enough time. So the real question
is how long would the various choices take to crack.
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I like the HP DDS/DAT drives.
thanks for the info on this ... Sounds like these could fit in as a part
of my overall multi-faceted backup system (I think I want a USB disc,
too).
Now, can you tell me: Someone else informed me of the DDS-1 -2 -3
breakdowns and the different megs the
I'll check this out later today.
matt barkdull wrote:
I don't think the DDS-3 drives will read the DDS-1 tapes, but will
read the DDS-2.
Basically this means they are one step backward compatible.
DDS-3 will read/write DDS-2
DDS-2 will read/write DDS-1
DDS-1 cannot read/write DDS-2
I use a Mac to backup a Dell PIII to a DAT drive. (This was an
evolution, not a new setup.) Yesterday I realized that the backup wasn't
working because the name of the PC had changed from "Dell PIII
Accounting" to "111ES" about a week ago.
Any ideas as to what could have done this? And the odds
The drive where the shap shots are stored is full or corrupt. I had a
similar one a while back and it turned out the drive directory was all
messed up.
Up until recently, I was running Retrospect 4.3 on a Power Mac 9600, and
backing up servers and workstations (I work for a book publisher) to
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