Many will object, but in my opinion, the best way to distribute manuals is
electronically; a PDF version of the manual, or some other online help
installed when the software is installed. When you install an update,
updated help files are also installed. Apple has been doing this for several
My story: A while back, my file server (beige G3/266 w/256MB DRAM, OS 8.1,
ASIP 5.0.3) would also crash consistently when backing up if Retrospect ran
in the background with the default memory allocation settings. The only way
I could get it to back up properly was to set its memory allocation to
I just installed a VXA-1 drive on a G3 Mac for network backups, and am
seriously impressed by the speed of the thing. Some of the sources that were
backed up during my testing copied at speeds nearing 200MB/min! But, I'm
wondering about compares, because the compare speeds I've seen thus far in
You should be able to back up your server with Retrospect without stopping
file services. I do it all the time. Do you have Retrospect running on the
same computer as ASIP or on a different machine? Tip: Retrospect and ASIP
are both huge resource hogs and don't like to share. Even offloading
retrospec, to stop the file server.
And them backup the files with retrospec and re-run another
script to restar the server.
thanks for your help.
Carl
David Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED]@latchkey.com on
02/05/2001 15:23:16
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