Re: [SOT?] Retrospect causing ASIP crash?

[Jon Gardner]

on 2/10/2000 10:20 AM, Craig Gaevert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> My suspicion is that the G3 card doesn't like sustained transfers all of
> a sudden and I am going to experiment with swapping back in the 604e
> card to see if I can achieve the same result.  If so then I'd say it's
> bad ram.  Thoughts?

Reinstall the Retrospect client. I had an OS problem at one point that we
fixed by reloading the OS, and afterward Retro would crash the server.
Reinstalling the client fixed it.

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Re: [SOT?] Retrospect causing ASIP crash?

[Philip Chonacky]

>I have the same problem on a similar config; I have no correct backup of
>my CMD 105 gb Raid drive: the ASIP/retrospect server running on a
>8600/250/ w/ G3 Newertech card freezes after a few files are backed up...
>However there is no "hard freeze"; the asip server simply doesn't respond
>but the mouse/keybord is active. The asip version is 6.1.
>Another element: I have exactly the same configuration running another
>ASIP server that has no problem doing incremental backups every day.

Here's a suggestion, if you haven't done so already.
Try setting the retro client to background backups at something other than
full priority to the backup.

Also check the memory reserved by ASIP cache for other applications.  I'm
not sure how much the client needs, but give it a wide berth and see what
happens.

Hope this helps.

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Re: [SOT?] Retrospect causing ASIP crash?

[Serge Paulus]

I have the same problem on a similar config; I have no correct backup of my CMD 105 gb 
Raid drive: the ASIP/retrospect server running on a 8600/250/ w/ G3 Newertech card 
freezes after a few files are backed up... However there is no "hard freeze"; the asip 
server simply doesn't respond but the mouse/keybord is active. The asip version is 
6.1. 
Another element: I have exactly the same configuration running another ASIP server 
that has no problem doing incremental backups every day.
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On jeudi 10 février 2000, Craig Gaevert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2 weeks ago I brought my ASIP server (6.2) down for some basic
>maintenance - Techtool Pro (2.5.3) and a desktop rebuild - and brought
>it right back up.  This server had been up for about three months with
>no problems.  Everything looked ok.  But ever since this time trying to
>back up the server with Retro from my desktop machine causes the ASIP
>server to freeze hard.  By freeze hard I mean that it will cause the
>server to drop into MacsBug but MacsBug will not write a StdLog file.
>This machine will run all day with NT boxes and Macs hitting it with no
>problem but as soon as Retro starts to harvest files it's gone.  This
>machine also hosts FMP Server and has done so without a hitch for about
>5 years.
>
>The specs:
>8550 w/ Newer G3 card
>184 mb ram
>2 - 4gb drives
>
>My suspicion is that the G3 card doesn't like sustained transfers all of
>a sudden and I am going to experiment with swapping back in the 604e
>card to see if I can achieve the same result.  If so then I'd say it's
>bad ram.  Thoughts?
>
>--
>Craig Gaevert, A.I.A.
>Architect / Associate / Systems Administrator
>TLCD Architecture
>Santa Rosa, CA
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>
>





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