I am testing a Snap Server loaned by Quantum next week.
I would appreciate anyone with experience of backing these up using Retrospect
emailing me their observations. I will summarise later to this list. Specifically I'd
like to know:
* what machine the Snap is mounted on for backup
* OS of
Matthew
Thanks for your reply. I think the only way to be 100% sure would be to field-test
such a configuration. I would appreciate being informed if anyone does test such a
setup and they report back to Dantz.
To help you find out why I did not get a reply, below is a copy of the mail I
We have a Quantum Snap server 20 gig. We mount it on a PowerComputing
machine using system 8.6. We do have a problem with the backup freezing up
towards the end of backing up the server then the server drops off the
network and must be restarted. We have been working with Quantum to resolve
Nicholas,
As you say, this should work. Retrospect should be able to back up a server
mounted on your desktop, emulating AppleShare. Different server software
packages do AppleShare emulation in varied ways, so we can only say for sure
that true AppleShare and NT Services for Mac will definitely
Yes,
I had a early model SNAP server in my office for evaluation few one month
ago and we did some tests using Retrospect.
1. volume size was two, 7GB drives, mounted on our backup computer as two
separate volumes.
2. OS for the backup computer was OS 8.5
3. mounted as AppleTalk
4. No
