RE: VXA drives

2000-01-21 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
I've got all the individual posts dating back to 6/23/99. Brad. -Original Message- From: Gene Kubicki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VXA drives I bought a VXA drive from Ecrix 2 days ago, very easy to set up with

RE: Solstice

2000-02-02 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
I'll second that emotion. It is darn near a *daily* battle to keep my BackupExec backups running on my NT servers. From BackupExec hanging to it not liking the tapes I just erased for the night's round of backups, it's a pain. Retrospect is a little better. I created the scripts a long time

RE: Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC

2000-02-29 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
I hope Retro will be able to tell a CLIENT to do something (like run a batch file). That would be REALLY helpful if I could turn off virus software to speed the client up... Brad. -Original Message- From: Craig Isaacs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 9:33 PM

RE: Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC

2000-02-29 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
It's ALL good. Give us everything. ;-) Brad. -Original Message- From: Craig Isaacs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 3:04 PM To: retro-talk Subject: RE: Backing up FileMaker Pro 5 on a PC I hope Retro will be able to tell a CLIENT to do something (like

RE: DLT 7000 and Retrospect

2000-02-23 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
I can assure you it works (or should). I've got 3 BW G3-450s running Retro 4.2 with the ADK (1.6? 1.7?) that supports HP's DLT Library (autoloader). The libraries are attached to Adaptec PCI (duh!) PowerDomain 2940UWs. It works flawlessly, and has for about 8 months so far. I hav had a LOT of

RE: DLT 7000 and Retrospect

2000-02-23 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Oops. Make that 2930UWs. Brad. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Retrospect and Microsoft Exchange

2000-03-08 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
You're gonna have to stop the Exchange services, I'm certain. But, like anything, if you did perform a "cold" backup of Exchange/SQL/Oracle/etc, you would be able to back it up successfully. Mind you, I have not done this, since BackupExec lets me do a "hot" backup of Exchange and SQL. Brad.

RE: Windows 95 Client

2000-04-24 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Yup. If the machine has a dial-up adapter listed (or remote access services) in the networking control panel, it apparently is the case that the Retrospect install chooses not to bind itself to the proper NIC. Solution: Uninstall Retrospect. Uninstall the offending networking piece. Install

RE: Changing IP address

2000-05-08 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
To the best of my knowledge, the ONLY time you have to worry about IP addresses is if and only if you used the machines' ip addresses to add them to the retrospect client database. If you added machines to the database by IP NAME or using Retrospect's client browser, then you're OK.

RE: Encryption?

2000-06-20 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
One additional note: Encryption and compression both take time and each takes more time as the amount of encryption or compression increases. So, backup performance will suffer if you choose to encrypting and/or compress your backups. How much will depend on CPU speed(s), since both processes

RE: IP numbers on clients

2000-06-28 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Retrospect has an option to export a report after each backup job. After each night's backup jobs, Retrospect exports the backup report to tab-delimited files. The IP addresses of the clients are in the report, in one of the last columns. Each morning, I've got a scheduled batch file (on NT)

RE: Mac Client Uptdate

2000-10-18 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Ideally, I'd like to know what files get updated, where the files go, and any changes made to the registry. That way, I could update their client software (by copying files and importing registry keys) when the user logs into my NT domain. Then, I just stop and restart the Retrospect Client

Windows Client Update (was Mac Client Uptdate - for Irena)

2000-10-19 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Is a reboot *really* necessary? Or, can the service be stopped and restarted for full effect? On initial installs, simply starting the newly installed service works... Brad. The guy who likes to automate and/or use the CLI for just about everything. "The admin with the flattest butt wins."

RE: tape capacity

2000-10-20 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
"Native" is the actual amount of data that the tape can theoretically store, before compression. A 12.0 Gig file should fit on a 12.0 Gig capacity tape. Suppose you are able to take a 16.0 Gig file and compress it down (using PKZIP or whatever) to 12.0 Gigs. Now that 16.0 Gig file can fit on the

Compaq SCSI Adapters and Compaq Tape Devices

2000-11-09 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Just FYI. Just a couple notes for the list (and Dantz). 1. Attaching a Compaq DLT tape library to a Compaq ProLiant 6500 server's built-in SCSI adapter doesn't work with BackupExec. I haven't tried it with Retrospect, but would expect similar results. BackupExec couldn't talk reliably talk to

RE: Daily Problems with out of Sync Error messages...

2000-11-15 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
I see this on Retrospect 5.15 with a Compaq server and a Compaq AIT loader using the built-in SCSI port. I do not see this on Retrospect 5.15 with a Compaq server and a Compaq AIT loader using an Adaptec 2940UW. Check your SCSI bus for errors (controller, cable, and device). Brad.

Silent Installation of Retrospect Client 5.15

2000-11-15 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Hi, All! Well, I did some digging. It IS possible to install (or uninstall) Retrospect Client 5.15 silently. 1. Using WinZip (or similar), extract the files contained in "CLIENT SETUP.EXE" to a folder. In this folder will be 10 files, one of them will be "SETUP.EXE". 2. In your C:\WINNT

RE: uplinking slowdown

2000-12-07 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
It could be half-duplex vs full-duplex on the 100Mb connections. If one switch port is trying to talk at full-duplex, but the other side of the connection (other switch's port) is trying to talk half-duplex, then performance drops dramatically. If the switches are configurable (managed), ensure

RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-03 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Suppose the first client of the night meets the threshold value, so Backup Server starts a backup. 30 seconds into the backup, the client's CPU-sucking OpenGL screen saver and a virus scan both kick in. Now, all your other clients are piled up behind this (now slow) client. It's not perfect,

RE: Faster catalog matching (was RE: Anyone used Retrospect onme dium-large systems?)

2001-01-04 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Does the solution have "RISC" as part of it? ;-) Brad. -Original Message- From: Craig Isaacs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 4:23 PM To: retro-talk Subject: Faster catalog matching (was RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?) - with a lot

RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-04 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Well, that's not *entirely* true. Retrospect scales with some difficulty, though I'm learning to work around some of its shortcomings, and ranting about some others. I have about 1000 clients, currently being backed up by 3 Macs. I am converting the 3 Mac servers into 4 NT servers, not because

RE: Catalog 0ut of sync on NT server

2001-01-04 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Here's a message I posted on 11/9/00... Upon re-reading what I wrote, I'd like to amend #2 by stating that the server in question was a DL580, not a DL380. Anyway, try a different SCSI adapter, rather than using Compaq's built-in SCSI adapter. --- begin old message - Just FYI.

RE: Client IP changes

2001-02-02 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Adding by IP NAME is OK, too. I'd avoid adding clients by IP ADDRESS if at all possible. Brad. -Original Message- From: Irena Solomon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:18 AM To: retro-talk Subject: Re: Client IP changes Hi John, If you let Retrospect find

RE: Retrospect 4.3 (Mac) Assertion Check?

2001-02-08 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Here's my 2c... I was running Retro 4.2 on an 8100 without problem. After I upgraded to Retro 4.3, I started getting asserts pretty frequently, complaining that the catalog was out of synch, IIRC. I replaced the RAM in the 8100 and the problem went away. Brad. -Original Message-