Retro.Startup Extension (Mac)

2000-11-07 Thread Mark
removing the out-of-date Extension, and then allowing it to be rebuilt at the next launch of the program? Best regards, Mark E. Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [

Retrospect OEM 4.2 vs. Express 4.3

2000-11-22 Thread Mark
tant way(s)? Best regards, Mark E. Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:<http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/> For urgen

Re: Beige G3 and 10/100

2000-11-23 Thread Mark
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, matt barkdull wrote: > >Beige G3 has 10/100... 9600 - maybe, probably not > > Neither has 10/100 built in. Just checked the Apple Spec database to > be sure. > > This is a 300, but specs also show that the 366 only had 10BaseT. Correct. In any case, we run a number of As

Re: Beige G3 and 10/100

2000-11-23 Thread Mark
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Retrospect wrote: > I had major problems with Retrospect & Beige G3 with Asante NICs & > Asante drivers, even the latest ones. We too had some simultaneous Asante card "crashes" on several different flavors (and colors) of machines, only when they were connected to 7016 swit

Re: G4s and error 519

2000-11-29 Thread Mark
r half duplex, because of limitations in the Mac OS). YMMV, Mark E. Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:<http://list.working-dogs

Retrospect 4.3 AppleScripts

2000-12-04 Thread Mark
leMaker Server 5 Students." So finally to the question: Must we change the AppleScript to explicitly state "FileMaker Server 5 Students," or will the supplied default work without modification? Best regards, Mark E. Ingram

Re: Retrospect 4.3 AppleScripts

2000-12-04 Thread Mark
Mark Ingram wrote: > [A] "FileMaker Pro Server Toggle" AppleScript ... is included with > Retrospect 4.3 [and] refers specifically to to FileMaker 3.0. The > AppleScript itself, however, is structured as follows: > > tell application "FileMaker Pro Server&quo

Re: Retrospect 4.3 AppleScripts

2000-12-04 Thread Mark
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Philip Chonacky wrote: > Funny, when I open it, I get: > > tell application "FileMaker Pro" to «event FMPAFQUI» > What application did you point your script to? Because the FileMaker 5 server is currently under heavy user load, I have not yet directed the script

Re: Retrospect 4.3 AppleScripts

2000-12-05 Thread Mark
ervers, Retrospect 4.3 remains in the background during and after scripted backups. Is this new behavior, which we can also expect on the FMP server? Best regards, Mark E. Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- -- To subscrib

Interrupted Backups with Retrospect 4.3 Mac

2000-12-07 Thread Mark
or similar. Retrospect 4.3 has been the *only* change. Is there something about the new program that could cause this behavior? Meanwhile, I think we'll try version 4.2 for tonight's backup. Regards, Mark E. Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] (a

Re: uplinking slowdown

2000-12-08 Thread Mark
taken about nine seconds at 100 Mbps with matched (in this case full) duplex settings took about 1.5 *minutes* when one of the devices was forced to half duplex. YMMV. Regards, Mark E. Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- --

Re: Interrupted Backups with Retrospect 4.3 Mac

2000-12-08 Thread Mark
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Mark wrote: > We upgraded an OS 8.6/ASIP 6.2 G4 to Retrospect 4.3, and for each of > the past three mornings since the upgrade, the server has been found > with ASIP in the foreground, and Retrospect in the background with the > dialogue box saying, "Do y

Re: Interrupted Backups with Retrospect 4.3 Mac

2000-12-20 Thread Mark
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Mark wrote: > We upgraded an OS 8.6/ASIP 6.2 G4 to Retrospect 4.3, and for each of > the past three mornings since the upgrade, the server has been found > with ASIP in the foreground, and Retrospect in the background with the > dialogue box saying, "Do y

"Shoeshining" Tape Heads?

2001-02-06 Thread Mark
rformance: XX.X Mb/minute with XX% compression," is there some rule-of-thumb value below which shoeshining could be expected to occur on DDS-4 drives? Would a different (albeit arbritrary) value perhaps apply to DDS-2 devices? Thanks much, Mark E. Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] (a

Retrospect 4.3 (Mac) Assertion Check?

2001-02-07 Thread Mark
he program has begun the scripted backup that had been aborted at Midnight due to the above issue. Does this sound familiar to anyone here? Regards, Mark E. Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Retrospect 4.3 (Mac) Assertion Check?

2001-02-07 Thread Mark
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Pam Lefkowitz wrote: > I got an assertion check on a restore a couple weeks ago. Basically, > the technotes told me to call tech support. :-) Thanks, Pam. I did hear back privately from Dantz, and they are keeping an eye on the situation to see if it reoccurs. > For me, I q

Re: Retrospect 4.3 (Mac) Assertion Check?

2001-02-07 Thread Mark
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Irena Solomon wrote: > This particular assert we are currently tracking and believe it to be > ASIP Memory Management-related. Most users who have seen this error > report that after restarting the assert does not reproduce. Thanks for the quick reply, Irena. In our case, si

Re: Backups via 802.11b

2000-02-02 Thread mark . maytum
etter to have those things on their own segments! =) HTH, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation Andrew Philipoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/02/00 11:43 AM Please respond to "retro-talk" To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL P

SCSI and OS9?

2000-02-22 Thread Mark Zeman
Hi, Just upgraded an old fileserver (7300) to OS9 and can't see the tape drive (Sony SDT-9000 DDS3)... checked the cables, no other scsi devices, works fine under OS 8.6 is this related to retrospect 4.2 or is there an OS update somewhere?... any help or suggestions very appreciated!! -- -

Re: AIT drives

2000-03-09 Thread Mark Hewitt
turn them off, you're amazed at the silence. -- MARK HEWITT Programmer / Max Multimedia London / 0171-288-6288 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:&l

Re: AIT drives

2000-03-17 Thread Mark Hewitt
ferences between AIT, AIT-1 and AIT-2 as well. It's all in the PDF. -- MARK HEWITT Programmer / MAX Multimedia / London -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:<http://lis

Re: Transferring StorageSets

2000-03-22 Thread Mark Siple
toring from the same CD-RW discs on my personal CD-RW drive and had no problems. Mark. - Mark Siple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Publishing Systems Engineer The Columbus Dispatch "I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't configure per

Re: Selectors - Except User Profiles

2000-03-29 Thread mark . maytum
x27;t realize that file had to get copied back & forth each time they logged in. HTH, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation Malcolm McLeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/28/00 07:47 PM Please respond to "retro-talk" To: <

Re: Since the list is quiet I'll throw this out there.

2000-04-13 Thread mark . maytum
a minimum when we *really* have to do a restore. HTH, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation Hi I'm new to the list here and thought I'd ask a question that some of you here might have knowledge about. Quick synopsis of what's going on and what the plan is and ask for any advic

Re: Restore Size

2000-04-14 Thread mark . maytum
it's a harmless message though... HTH, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation Noah Eiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/14/00 02:46 PM Please respond to "retro-talk" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Rest

Re: Restore Size

2000-04-14 Thread mark . maytum
he tech notes more often than I do. Didn't mean to be an alarmist... :-) Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation Matthew Tevenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/14/00 03:42 PM Please respond to "retro-talk" To: retro-talk <[EM

Re: New to Rertospect and AppleScript question

2000-04-17 Thread mark . maytum
databases get hosed, but I've always been able to just copy the latest working version from the other hard disk. I've never actually had to recover from a restrospect backup. Unless there's a catastrophic HD failure, I'll probably never have to use the retrospect backup of

Re: Crashing server after nightly backup

2000-04-19 Thread mark . maytum
ls like a U&G problem. HTH a little, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation rcash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/19/00 03:51 PM Please respond to "retro-talk" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Crashing

Re: Repost of earlier message

2000-04-20 Thread mark . maytum
Well, this isn't *exactly* germain but we've taken a lot of calls in the past 6 months about the erroneous "file sharing could not be enabled" message. It seems to crop up mostly on OS9 computers running multiple users or networked MM and on laptops when switching locations. Note that file s

Re: External Script

2000-04-27 Thread mark . maytum
th retrospect. You can schedule another AT command to restart the server after that. Goodbye leaky NT server. I know this doesn't directly answer your question but maybe it's a start... HTH, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation "Alex Lisak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Why won't Retrospect autorun?

2000-05-04 Thread Mark Hewitt
o deactivate the screen saver (to see if the backup worked), and the script would start shortly after. Removing BlackWatch worked. -- MARK HEWITT Programmer / MAX Multimedia / London -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubsc

Re: AIT tape loaders-any real world experiences?

2000-05-04 Thread mark . maytum
e it actually has to read tape. hint, hint. >>>Also, anybody have a solution for notification of failures? I've been toying with hacking up an applescript solution to my pager, but if someone's already done it... ;-)<<< OK, that would be cooler still! HTH, Ma

Re: Problems when asking for new tape.

2000-05-05 Thread mark . maytum
it this way, but it seems to work... HTH, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation Eric Zylstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/04/00 05:27 PM Please respond to "retro-talk" To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc:

Re: Autoloader Oddity

2000-05-05 Thread mark . maytum
them to recycle and the storage set picks the right tape. I have a feeling this isn't the *right* way to do it probably, it's just a workaround thatwell worked. HTH, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation Noah Eiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTE

Yamaha CD-RW 6416

2000-05-10 Thread Mark Siple
A while back, I read Yamaha had released a beta firmware update that fixed this drive's incompatibility with Retrospect. Does anyone have an update on that beta's progress? Anyone having trouble after applying the beta? Thanx. Mark. - Mark Siple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: AIT tape loaders-any real world experiences?

2000-05-12 Thread mark . maytum
AFAIK, you are correct. All these guys are OEMing Sony's mechanism into their boxes. BTW, Seagate isn't making the Sidewinder200 anymore. The reason we went with Seagate's box is because we've had very good experiences with their tech support and service. And indeed they came through in th

Re: Shuting Down NT Apps

2000-05-17 Thread mark . maytum
have an AT command run that restarts the server. And when the server restarts, Faircom loads as a service. Now whatever method you end up using to get fmp to stop, I can't stress how important it is to test a restore after you do a backup. I don't know what effect this would have on a

Re: Mac CPU upgrades?

2000-05-31 Thread Mark Collien
t;months before Newer. We have had good luck with Sonnet cards also. My main home machine had a Sonnet card and it always worked well. That machine is now running my FileMaker Pro server without problems. -- Mark -- Mark Collien - Manager, Information Technology National Center on Education a

Re: restoring registry

2000-06-08 Thread mark . maytum
7;s my understanding that retrospect can backup the active registries of these os's so Regcopy isn't necessary - you might want to test that though, I'm pretty sure, but :-) HTH, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation "Amy R. Jaquish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: restoring registry

2000-06-08 Thread mark . maytum
oops, sorry for the seemingly redundant post. I think I missed part of this thread! :-) "Amy R. Jaquish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/08/00 04:52 PM Please respond to "retro-talk" To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:

Encryption?

2000-06-17 Thread mark . maytum
: was Mark Maytum/Pompy received by

advice requested

2000-08-03 Thread Mark Witrylak
Can anyone give me possible pitfalls in running an Adaptec Powerdomain Ultra wide scsi card (68 pin) in a new Apple Mac G4 with Retrospect v4.2 please. TIA Mark Witrylak Computer Support Team Ysgol Seicoleg School of Pyschology Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor

Re: VXA

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Witrylak
pak. I'm TRYING to run it off an Apple Mac G4 (OS 9.0.4) but the G4 doesn't see the damn thing!! What server type are you (looking to) running it from? Mark Witrylak Computer Support Team Ysgol Seicoleg School of Pyschology Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor

Re: 4.3 and System 9.04 - Crashing all the time

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Witrylak
Can you tell me if this is the Ultra SCSI2 (50 pin) card on you G4, and IF you remember, what the firmware revision was? And how you found out that it was the SCSI card? Please Mark >It took me a couple tries, but my problem turned out to be an old >version of the firmware for the SCS

retrospect crash

2000-11-01 Thread Mark Witrylak
be inaccurate. Internal consistency check failed: assertion check at "elem.c-811" Backup server stops with general error. This is now happening on TWO of my Win98 clients - I have to forget them in order to run my server. Thanks in anticipation Mark Witrylak Computer Su

Re: backing up the "AppleShare PDS" file with Retrospect?

2001-01-05 Thread mark . maytum
I think as long as the AppleShare server is running when you do your backups, permissions get backed up automatically.  If you ever have to restore an entire ASIP volume, following the Retrospect instructions (you do a second restore for privs.) works just fine.   Steve Maser <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How to keep Backup sets/tapes specific to a magazine?

2001-01-13 Thread mark . maytum
o manually assign an empty tape to a storage set.  If you name an empty tape now, Retrospect still sees it as blank and will use it however it sees fit.  Granted, that's a feature, not a bug.  But it would also be a good feature to override that feature.  :-) Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills

Re: How to keep Backup sets/tapes specific to a magazine?

2001-01-16 Thread mark . maytum
I believe if you have a storage set named "Bob" and you erase and name all your tapes in a magazine, "1-Bob"..."8-Bob, etc. (assuming an 8 tape mag) ANY other backup set assigned to that script will be able to use those empty named tapes.  Only after they have data on them does retrospect really a

User deferred messages

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Witrylak
(server is 4.3 on OS8.6, clients are 4.2a/4.3) Mark Witrylak Computer Support Team Ysgol Seicoleg School of Pyschology Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor University of Wales, Bangor Adeilad Brigantia The Brigantia Build

It's newby time! (LTO mechanisms / RAID swap modificationflaggin g)

2001-01-26 Thread Mark James
bearing in mind the ASIP Mac will be absolutely unchanged, will I be able to continue my incremental backup as normal or will the data be marked as modified? Does anyone have advise on how to minimise the risk of modification? Many thanks in advance, Mark -- Mark James ~ information technologis

Backup OS/2 client?

2001-02-02 Thread mark . maytum
backup solution for OS/2? Don't care how "out there" it is. As always I'm interested in any helpful tips or tricks. TIA, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscri

Re: auto erase tapes

2001-02-22 Thread mark . maytum
Michael, Try making a storage set for each tape you want to use in your backup script. If your backup script is set to "full" or "recycle" (depending on your version of retro) the backup script will overwrite the tape when it's re-inserted. Mark MICHAEL PRUSSE

Re: user deferred?

2001-02-23 Thread mark . maytum
deferring the backup (I hope!). This problem normally doesn't repeat itself 2 nights in a row. But I'm not sure why. Maybe they get restarted? Anyway, removing multiple users is not an option for these macs. Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation matt barkdull <[EMAIL

Mac / Retrospect / Exabyte EZ17

2001-03-05 Thread Mark James
titioned a rather large RAID with 'only' tape as backup! PLEASE RESPOND TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark James ~ information technologist mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ehsrealtime ~ 7 Soho Square ~ London W1V 6EH t 020 7878 2600 ~ f 020 7544 4700 ~ www.ehsrealtime.com ___

are storage sets xplatform?

2001-03-08 Thread mark . maytum
sort I could rebuild the storage sets from retro on the W2K box (can this even be done?) but that would probably take longer than I'd care to wait. :-) Can I do this? TIA, Mark Maytum Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation -- -- To subscribe

seeking Retro&Toast compatible CDRW for Mac

2000-03-03 Thread Mark K. Stowe
available and they don't have drivers for many (most?) of the new drives that I have looked at (that includes their driver updates). Thanks and best wishes, Mark -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAI

RE: Overland Drives?

2001-02-23 Thread Mark D Mabry
y w/ no problem. Simultaneously, I run another Retrospect on another NT4 server for disk-based quickies. I've also tested this entire process on W2K Server and Adv. Server, and it works great, even spanning Active Directory. Happy Mark --- This e-mail contains the thought and opinion of Mar