DDS3 (12/24GB )/4 (20/40GB) drives and media are cheap and will backup anything "classic" just fine. I started using AIT drives but I don't know if they are supported by retrospect (50GB native/120GB compressed). It is easier just to dump all your user files to a main server (I use an old Compaq server) and then backup from that or just mirror it.
On Apr 16, 10:38 am, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:05 AM -0700 4/15/2011, Jeff Walther wrote: > > >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? > > Two minutes on Roxio's site got me > this:http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/retrospect/support/device-support.html > > But I recall an all encompassing pdf at one time from there. It had > all the devices listed and said what vers of Retrospect started the > support for them. If you search there, you'll probably find it. > > >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. > > Too much work. Standardize your OS builds so you only need one clone > of each vers, made once a year or so. Then push all your user data > to a machine running OS X and back it up from there. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- ----- 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/
