Re: computer synchronizing

[Jim Coefield]

Phillip,

I'm using Retro 4.3 on the B&W G3 backup server running OS 9.0.4, 
which also is the destination for the duplication (to an HFS+ disk 
partition). The source is coming off of a PC running NT 4 Service 
Pack 3 on an NTFS formatted drive. It's always the same files that 
get reduplicated (or so it seems as they go streaming by in the 
duplicate window--no file by file logs on duplicates). I can find no 
rhyme nor reason why it's the same files. They all have the same 
directory permissions as the root directory that gets sourced by 
Retro.


>Subject: Re: computer synchronizing
>From: "Philip Chonacky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:03:32 -0400
>
>
>Which platform are you running for Retrospect?
>
>I have found that there are enough differences between file info on 
>Windows and MacOS, that Retrospect would not match the same file 
>located on the two different file systems.  This could be especially 
>true if one volume is NTFS, since Retr.o for Mac doesn't recognize 
>the NT security settings.
>
>As a side not, I found this also to be true with Apple's folder 
>synchronization tool with one folder being on a PC formatted disk 
>and the other a Mac drive.
>
>Any one else care to comment?
>
>
>-PC



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Re: computer synchronizing

[Tim David]

This may be out of left field, but have you checked that machine for a
macro virus?  Macro viruses can sometimes affect Word files on a machine
without having to open them which would cause them to be modified every
day.


Jim Coefield wrote:

> Speaking of duplicating from PC's to Macs (asked this question once
> months ago, but didn't get any response, so I thought I'd try again),
> I have a 7,000 document directory on a PC (NT 4.0, service pack 3)
> that I duplicate to a Mac web server (B&W G3 running 9.0.4) using
> Personal Web sharing to serve out the docs. I have a nightly
> duplicate script, set to "replace all contents" set to do the chore.
>
> For some reason, that I have yet to figure out, 1339 files get
> re-duplicated every night. I haven't found any correlation between
> the files (mostly Microsoft Word docs) that would give me a clue as
> to why it is these docs. Any thoughts on why this is happening would
> be greatly appreciated, as it adds on an extra 15 minutes of
> network/Retrospect overhead that I'd like to avoid. Using Retro 4.3
> on the same Mac G3.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Coefield
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> >Subject: RE: computer synchronizing
> >From: "Craig Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:24:28 -0700
>
> [snip]
>
> >In addition, you can duplicate between PCs and Macs.
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> >Craig
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RE: computer synchronizing

[Jim Coefield]

Speaking of duplicating from PC's to Macs (asked this question once 
months ago, but didn't get any response, so I thought I'd try again), 
I have a 7,000 document directory on a PC (NT 4.0, service pack 3) 
that I duplicate to a Mac web server (B&W G3 running 9.0.4) using 
Personal Web sharing to serve out the docs. I have a nightly 
duplicate script, set to "replace all contents" set to do the chore.

For some reason, that I have yet to figure out, 1339 files get 
re-duplicated every night. I haven't found any correlation between 
the files (mostly Microsoft Word docs) that would give me a clue as 
to why it is these docs. Any thoughts on why this is happening would 
be greatly appreciated, as it adds on an extra 15 minutes of 
network/Retrospect overhead that I'd like to avoid. Using Retro 4.3 
on the same Mac G3.

Thanks,

Jim Coefield
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>Subject: RE: computer synchronizing
>From: "Craig Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:24:28 -0700

[snip]

>In addition, you can duplicate between PCs and Macs.
>
>HTH,
>
>Craig



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RE: computer synchronizing

[Craig Isaacs]

> can Retrospect (Mac) be used to synchronize the drives on two
> geographically separated Macs?
>
> something came up in another mailing list that I thought
> Retrospect might be able to handle. (basically, it's to synch a
> main and a backup web server.)

Retrospect can do this easily if the synchronization is one-way and you can
ping one system from the other. Just set up a duplicate script
(Automate>Scripts>Duplicate). You can set Retrospect up to duplicate as
often as you'd like.

You'd want either Retrospect Workgroup or Retrospect Desktop plus a client
to do this, and it will work with either Windows or Macintosh versions of
Retrospect. In addition, you can duplicate between PCs and Macs.

HTH,

Craig



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