Hi there;
Due to a recent influx of Windows 7 machines I've finally upgraded from 7.6 to 7.7. I upgraded yesterday, did the retrospect update and now it reports as version Single Server 7.7.620. I installed the 7.7.114 client on the Windows 7 machines, and now I have no end of headaches.
My 7.6 setup worked perfectly, except for two windows 2000 machines that take about 9 hours to build a snapshot, but I'm not worrying about that here. I previously was backing up Win7 clients with 7.6 but I'm aware you can't do a bare-metal recovery with Win7 and 7.6, so I bought 7.7.
Under 7.7.620/Client 7.7.114 the windows 7 machines all fail with error -519. Sometimes it's "Trouble reading files" -519, and sometimes it's "Scanning incomplete"
If it was just the windows 7 clients I'd chalk that up to just my luck, but now I have many WinXP clients that I can't backup. It starts, gets the 519 error, then subsequent accesses of the client say "-505 backup reserved" I can't even access those clients again unless I either reboot that remote computer, or go and turn the retrospect client (versions 7.5, 7.6, 7.7) off and on again. Then it will just disappear and go back to -505 backup reserved.
My poor sole Win98 client can't be even accessed anymore, "Error -1 (unknown)" I tried updating the client from on it from 7.0 to 7.7.114 and now I get an error message on the Win98's screen "The PCVOLDRIVER.DLL file is linked to missing export KERNEL32.DLL.FindFirstVolumeW" and still Error -1.
I installed 7.7 over my old 7.6 setup. I used my old client database, and my existing backup sets (backing up to hard drives, and a NAS). I've tried forgetting and re-adding clients but that doesn't change anything.
Retrospect .7.7.620 is running on an AMD 4600+ with 2GB ram, drives are connected via usb docks. This setup worked really well under 7.6.
What else can I do? Do I have to go scorched earth and start over everything from scratch?