A grooming task started about 30 hours ago and is still running. How long should I expect it to take to groom a 1 TB backup set? The media set is on an Ethernet-attached NAS drive. How do I get out of this? ...

Thanks for the help. I was able to restore Config80.dat and now have all of my scripts and rules back. I did have a couple scripts that tried to run as soon as everything came back up, but I was able to successfully stop them. Thanks again for all o...

Quote: Obvioiusly this is a user forum concidering Dave's un-needed sarcastic response. Yes, the Forum is a user community. But my response was anything but sarcastic. Cynical, perhaps. Condescending, also possible. But completely sincere, e...

The Finder doesn't use the same communication protocol as the Retrospect Client software does, so while you can confirm that the devices are available on your network it doesn't mean they're properly configured for use with Retrospect. Ok Got tha...

I have a tape in my backup set that Retrospect suddenly write protected. The tape has not been write protected, and has been inside the tape library. Now suddenly, Retrospect considers it protected. How does something like this happen, and how can I...

yup. If you've not done this before: Locate the media set that has the backup of your config80.dat file. Restore that file. Stop the engine. Remove *both* config80.dat *and* config80.bak files. Put back only the restored config80.dat...

There would be "holes" in the numbering from when you run a groom (depending on how the groom worked) -- that's pretty normal. However, those rebuild errors sound very, very wrong because they are referring (IMO) to .rdb files that shouldn't exis...

I have Retrospect working again. It turns out that in all of my frustration, I did not realize I was trying to enter the authentication code for the license key. Once that was taken care of, I was able to start the Retrospect engine, and keep it run...

Thanks... ...

Hi Mayoff, Thanks for the reply. The media sets in question has 37 LTO4 members, so I want to avoid rebuilding. If I do change the barcodes on the tapes, from say 500 (Video_Backup_36) to 501 (Video_Backup_36), and Retrospect requests 500 (Vi...

please refer to this link as this was been brought up to this forum. http://forums.dantz.com/showtopic.php?tid/34684/post/142379/hl//fromsearch/1/#142379 ...

The problem is that with Retrospect crashing at startup, and my license mysteriously not working, I can't restore from a previous backup. ...

So, if you were backing up the config80.dat file, you should restore it from a pre-crash state and see if that version will work. I'm guessing you still will need to rebuild the catalog of any media set that was in use at the time you did the reb...

Hi... I am planning to upgrade my Retrospect 7.6 to 7.7 and I would like to know if Retrospect Continuous Backup is supported in 7.7 on windows7. If not, what are the other options? Thanks ...

I finished upgrading the OS to 10.5.8. The config80.dat file definitely seems to be corrupted. The problem is that even when I try to have it create a new config80.dat it won't accept my license code. I always get an "error occurred" message. ...

If you change a bar code then Retrospect will think it is a new tape. Changing the bar code will require a catalog rebuild. ...

There are more media sets on that same NAS. Rebuild works fine for those. " You said: After a Catalog rebuild, only the most recent backups for each source are stored in the Catalog." " I didn't say that. It was a message in the Retrospect...

I'm not seeing that here (with a relatively new config80.dat file). In the English version if I make a new rule and in the "include" section, I add the line: File Date modified is before today If I save the rule and reopen it, that line i...

Did you make sure to stop the engine before editing the ini file because it will not read any changes made to this file while the engine is running? ...

Had them reversed in that the console needs 10.5.8 To use only one thread you tell your scripts to only use Activity thread 1 instead of any Activity thread. ...

Mac Pro dual 2.66 GHz, 9 GB Ram, OSX 10.6.4 running Retrospect 8.2.0399. Edited the retrospect.ini file per the tech note to enable optical drive support, but still cannot configure Retrospect to use the ordinary Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170A drive (the s...

The console and engine are on separate machines. The link they provided to me states that 10.4.11 meets the minimum requirement for the engine. See below. Retrospect 8 engine (Minimum requirements)(performs the backups and restores) * Intel pr...

Not so! It still says this on the "retrospect.com" web site: http://retrospect.com/products/software/retroformac/systemrequirements/ Retrospect 8 engine (Minimum requirements)(performs the backups and restores) Intel processor, Power PC G5...

Obvioiusly this is a user forum concidering Dave's un-needed sarcastic response. My apologies for even thinking a constructive response would come from non-enterprizing users. Dave, then why would 6.0 have its window resizing and 8.0 or 8.2 not? ...

That is because the minimum specs for the engine is 10.5.8 however the console will run on 10.4.11 so if they are both on the same machine it has to be at least 10.5.8 ...