Re: my @$$ is saved

[Scott Ponzani]

Here's our story:

The editors of the student newspaper came to me, looking like they'd seen a
ghost, and said that they couldn't open their 2.9M ClarisWorks document. It
just happen to be the completed February issue due to be printed that
afternoon. You can imagine the hours they put into it. The file got
corrupted that morning when one of them was working on it.

I told them that we'd try getting the previous day's file from our new
backup system--the one we installed less than a week before!

It worked! They were so relieved, I got chocolate!

Thanks, Dantz!

  Scott Ponzani
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  Communications Coordinator
  Christian Academy in Japan
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P.S. Waving "hi" to Dan Knight at Baker Book House in Ada, Michigan. I just
moved to Tokyo from Hudsonville.



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Re: my @$$ is saved

[Thomas Myers]

>Just another ordinary day at the office. A user lost slightly upwards of
>1 GB of data off her hard drive due to catastrophically munged volume
>structures (this was a new one on me - below a certain level, everything
>that was in a folder disappeared; only 100 MB worth of bare files were left!)
>
>Fortunately her drive was backed up to tape last night, and the whole
>thing is being restored as I write this.
>
>Thanks Dantz!
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>
RE: I have also seen this "Munged volume" problem with everything below a certain 
level missing. Problem is, Retrospect sees it also! That means that those "missing" 
items are not backed up.  We haven't found what is causing it. We are running ASIP 6.2 
on Mac OS 8.6 on a B/W G3.  That computer has a CD/RW ROM on it and a DLT.

Anyone else seeing this issue? 

This is a real issue as:

1) Friday we did a full backup.  All files were backed up.
2) Incrementals were done each day thereafter.

We crashed on the following Friday...The drive failed and had to be replaced.

I restored to our last snapshot (Thursday night). People then worked for two days 
before noticing that items were missing.  Upon checking it turned out that sometime 
during the week between the full backup on Friday and the snapshot on Thursday night 
the mysterious "missing files" occurred. Now it was a real pain. What I wanted to do 
is a restore from the full backup Friday, replacing corresponding files BUT NOT 
overwriting the files if the file already there was Newer.  This is NOT an option.  So 
I had to manually do this work. 

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Re: my @$$ is saved

[Michael L. McLean]

on 2/26/00 8:40 AM, Daniel Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Twice this year I've had to wipe a hard drive and start anew -- and both
> times it was the main partition on my own computer. Norton couldn't help.
> Disk Warrior threw up its hands in despair.
> 
> Both times I booted from a partition with a System Folder and a copy of
> my Retrospect Client, restored, ran Norton to verify and optimize, and
> was up within 90 minutes. That's 1.7 GB restored, tested, and optimized.
> Very impressive.
> 


The only caution I would add relates to my restore. System: PowerBook G3,
bronze keyboard, MacOS 9. I did the same steps, booted from a VST expansion
bay hard drive, ran my restore through Retro Client and ended up with a
horribly corrupt PowerBook internal hard drive. I had to reformat the drive,
hook the tape drive directly to the PowerBook, and restore directly. This
did work fine. I don't know if the problem was my network, OS 9, or
PowerBook related, and with 10 gig of data at risk, I didn't experiment.



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Re: my @$$ is saved

[Daniel Knight]

Twice this year I've had to wipe a hard drive and start anew -- and both 
times it was the main partition on my own computer. Norton couldn't help. 
Disk Warrior threw up its hands in despair.

Both times I booted from a partition with a System Folder and a copy of 
my Retrospect Client, restored, ran Norton to verify and optimize, and 
was up within 90 minutes. That's 1.7 GB restored, tested, and optimized. 
Very impressive.

I lost maybe 1-2 hours of early morning work and learned my lesson about 
being careful testing new software.

Dan Knight, information systems manager   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Baker Book House Company 
6030 East Fulton   616-676-9185 x146
Ada, Michigan 49301 fax 616-676-9573

  "As for Pentium PCs, well, they're harmless."



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Re: my @$$ is saved

[John C. Welch]

Oh well, if you like thathere's mine:

When my NT Terminal Server/Metaframe Setup went south during a CPU upgrade,
for almost a month I was in NT heck, Compaq heck, almost nothing was coming
back straight, service pack 4 was killing *everything*! (for perspective,
the registry on this box is now at a point that it is *too big* to make a
rescue disk. rdisk fails, because it can't get it on a floppy.)

The ONLY thing I could count on, was that each and every time I needed to
redo the *full* restore, Retrospect would perform flawlessly. I ended up
rebuilding that fershlugginer system 25 times in a month, and each time
Retrospect came through.

you guys *totally* rock!

and your MacWorld parties kick ass too!

john

> From: "Craig Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:19:11 -0800
> To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: my @$$ is saved
> 
> Woo hoo!
> 
> Thanks, Luke. It always helps to hear *why* we do what we do.
> 
> Craig
> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
>> Of Luke Jaeger
>> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:31 PM
>> To: retro-talk
>> Subject: my @$$ is saved
>> 
>> 
>> Just another ordinary day at the office. A user lost slightly upwards of
>> 1 GB of data off her hard drive due to catastrophically munged volume
>> structures (this was a new one on me - below a certain level, everything
>> that was in a folder disappeared; only 100 MB worth of bare files were left!)
>> 
>> Fortunately her drive was backed up to tape last night, and the whole
>> thing is being restored as I write this.
>> 
>> Thanks Dantz!
>> -- 
>> 
>> 
>> top of the world,
>> 
>> Luke Jaeger, Technology Coordinator
>> Disney Magazine Publishing
>> Northampton, Massachusetts
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 
>> Any opinions expressed in this message are my own and may not represent
>> the opinions of Disney Publishing, etc etc etc.
>> 
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>> 
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RE: my @$$ is saved

[Craig Isaacs]

Woo hoo!

Thanks, Luke. It always helps to hear *why* we do what we do. 

Craig

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Luke Jaeger
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:31 PM
> To: retro-talk
> Subject: my @$$ is saved
> 
> 
> Just another ordinary day at the office. A user lost slightly upwards of
> 1 GB of data off her hard drive due to catastrophically munged volume
> structures (this was a new one on me - below a certain level, everything
> that was in a folder disappeared; only 100 MB worth of bare files were left!)
> 
> Fortunately her drive was backed up to tape last night, and the whole
> thing is being restored as I write this.
> 
> Thanks Dantz!
> -- 
> 
> 
> top of the world,
> 
> Luke Jaeger, Technology Coordinator
> Disney Magazine Publishing
> Northampton, Massachusetts
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Any opinions expressed in this message are my own and may not represent
> the opinions of Disney Publishing, etc etc etc.
> 
> *
> 
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