Does anyone know of a list/page/site on which one can look up supported device types by Retrospect version going back to at least v. 4.x? This is the kind of thing that might have been back on Versiontracker back before CNET ruined it. Some times this kind of info gets written into the Wikipedia page, but it didn't this time.
I don't care about specific devices (like brand X, Model Y) but would like to see things like CDRW support added here, DVDRW support added there, DL DVD support added sometime later. BR-RW support added in version Z. Figuring out a backup solution which will work with the mix of ancient and not as ancient stuff running the particular OSs I run is like a logic game and one driving factor is support for particular backup hardware. Specifically, I'm considering dumping DAT because the older affordable drives are (compared to today's hard drive capacities) too slow and the newer faster drives are too expensive. I'm considering building an optical media storage box with four or eight drives, either DL DVD-RW or BR-RW, but I suspect that the latter would require too new of a version of Retrospect. I'm not sure the dual layer support is old enough either. Retrospect will go on to the next piece of available media when it fills one up, so if one has several drives, Retrospect will automatically fill each piece of media present. While one must still switch media, this allows a much longer time between media swapping, although one must swap several pieces instead of just one. Jeff Walther -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
