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Just a quick follow-up on this. Not sure if Apple or Retrospect have changed the way external disks are referenced, but each time I reconnect the external disk, I have to re-locate the .rbc file or the backup will fail. If anyone knows how to fix this, I'm all ears!

Hi There, I always seem to have to recycle my media set when there's around 300-400GB free on the disk. Even if I set the member to use 100%, Retrospect never seems to use that final 300-400GB. Can anyone see what I might be doing wrong? Cheers, Ben

@MikeHutch Awesome, thanks for that Mike - much appreciated. Moving the .rbc file to the top-level of the drive and re-locating it in Retrospect has fixed the issue. Retrospect can see the catalog and a backup ran without issue. Regarding compression, I've always avoided compression as it feels like it introduces a potential point of failure or corruption? Is that fair or is it incredibly rare in 2023? One last thing I've noticed, Retrospect will never use the final 300GB or so of the backup disk. The member is set to use 100% for Retrospect (see attached) but I have to recycle the media set at around 6.6TB instead of 7TB (also attached). Can you see what I'm doing wrong? Cheers, Ben

Have also tried turning-off permissions by ticking 'Ignore ownership' but still no joy. I also tried just adding a new member but see a -1101 error, even with 'Ignore ownership' on. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or how to fix?

Retrospect seems to have access to the containing folder, as it can see it from the 'Repair' screen (attached) but if I click 'Next' no member gets added to the list, and nothing happens when I click the repair button. Unless I'm misunderstanding how that screen works. I've also checked that Retrospect has 'Full Disk Access' which it does (see attached). And if I right-click the catalogue and choose 'Open with' MacOS recognises the .rbc file as a Retrospect file. But If I try to open the .rbc file, Retrospect hangs every time (also attached). Does anyone know how to fix? I'm happy to run some Terminal commands if that's easier? Cheers, Ben

Hi There, I've been running this setup for many years but all of a sudden, Retrospect no longer has access to the catalog file. Because I have a laptop with limited space, the catalog lives on an external disk and the .rbc file is 64GB. When I click 'Locate' I can only navigate to the enclosing folder, I can't go into the folder to select the catalog. I've tried running First Aid from Disk Utility and I can obviously access the disk in the Finder but Retrospect can't go into the directory for some reason. Are there permissions I should check or is there some way to give Retrospect access? Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Ben Retrospect 19.2 MacOS 13.5

Thanks heaps for the reply. Yes, we're running version 12.5.0 (111). God knows why the screenshots didn't get attached, here's a dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t5yg7aq5378by0q/retrospect-client.jpg?dl=0 I'm not a network guy so don't know if I can assign the static IP via the switch but I've manually assigned one in the client's network control panel. Again, the client shows up automatically but won't add via the 'auto' mode - or directly (or if I test the address). The Firewall is on for the server and I can see the Retrospect Engine is listed but I added the Retrospect app in there for good measure and also tried with the Firewall off. But nothing seems to work sorry - I always see 'No client found at that address'. I don't really understand why Retrospect can see the client but then not see it when it tries to add it? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Cheers

Hi There, I'm trying to add a client but receive an error: No client can be found at that address (-519). The weird thing is that Retrospect can see the client - it shows up as soon as I click 'Add' from the sources area. I've removed Retrospect and reinstalled on the client machine and checked that the Firewall is off - I can also ping the client. See attached for adding, adding manually and testing screenshots. Both the backup machine and the client are running OSX 10.11.6 Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Ben

Another issue which has always bugged me is that because you can have catalogues that may or may not be in Retrospect, the add and remove buttons should actually be labelled 'Create' and 'Delete' - these terms more accurately describe what they do. Then a new set of buttons labelled 'Add' and 'Remove' should be added to allow you to add and remove existing catalogues.

Thanks heaps for the reply Michael - comments below... The issue I found is that the drive containing the catalogues wouldn't appear in the 'Locate' window. I could browse and access the drive in the Finder and via other areas of Retrospect but not in the locate window. I'm no expert (I'm a graphic designer) but after 15 years of managing our server, I no longer keep data on the server system drive if I can help it. This allows for a quick erase and restore via CCC to fix any system issues and means we're back up and running in a matter of minutes. I've spent days trouble shooting issues in the past so have found that restoring back to a snapshot way faster. As above, the drive containing the catalogues never appeared in the 'Locate' window. In the end, I just started again and lost the incremental backups of the last three months. A total bummer but the path of least resistance and all that. Cheers Ben

Strangely, clicking the locate button now shows the drive that contains the catalogues so was able to add them that way - not sure why this disk wasn't seen by Retrospect previously. Cheers Ben

Thanks heaps for reply Lennart, Have tried double clicking the catalogue file as well as dragging it into the Media Sets window but no luck. Is there really no way to add an existing catalogue? This seems a bit weird right? Cheers

Hi There, We've just upgraded our server computer but all storage and backup disks are the same - only the server computer and OS drive is new. How do we transfer our existing catalogues over to the new server? 'Locate' won't even show the disk the catalogues reside on and 'Add' just creates a new one - but how do we get Retrospect to recognise an existing catalogue? Cheers Ben Retrospect 12.02 Mac OSX Server 10.10.5

Hi There, The server had to restart before the Catalogue finished - I was rebuilding it to a new catalogue so have the original intact. I've searched everywhere for this but can't find an answer - how do you add a catalogue to retrospect? The Add button tries to create a new one and if I click location, then for some reason the drive that contains the catalogue doesn't appear in the dialogue box even though the drive is mounted on the server. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Ben

Cheers, doing that now.