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Error occurred adding new media member (LTO)
robmaas posted a topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
I can't add a new media member (LTO tape) to a new media set. I get "an error occurred'. I also can't erase the tape. I want to re-use the tape as it belongs to another media set, but I can't find to which media set is belongs. Also Retrospect doesn't say so. How can I re-use the tape? -
Error occurred adding new media member (LTO)
robmaas replied to robmaas's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
The tape says (Empty) -
Hello, I need some advices regarding my dailies workflow. Every week or so I receive video footage from the director and I need to make an extra back-up of this footage, while the overall filming has not been completed. Fast and cheap, durable. After the entire project has been completed I can remove and re-use the LTO backup for the next project. I already have an LTO5 setup and use Retrospect 9 w/ Tandberg HH on a Mac Pro v2013. Questions: 1) I incidentally need to access the LTO5 tape, but hopefully not too much, in case data is lost. I also want to re-use the LTO5 tape after the project has been completed. Is it better to use an HDD (easier access) in this scenario or LTO5 (faster/bit cheaper/smaller -> can put it in a safe). I don't need long-term storage. Only for the duration of the project. 2) Normally I don't use verification at all after the LTO5 has been written to and completed, to save time. Is it recommended to use verification of the LTO5 backup w/ Retrospect or does it verify and write data at the same time w/ Retrospect? What is the error ratio if not verified? 3) Does it matter if I use $20 LTO5 tapes (Imation/HP..) or $50 LTO5 tapes? 4) Does the LTO5 tape withstand freezing temperatures or heat (down to -10 Celsius / up to 35 Celsius) if I want to store the tape for eg in my outdoor barn to spread backups? Many thanks! Rob
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Advice dailies workflow to LTO
robmaas replied to robmaas's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
What I do is: 1) Delete the old media set 2) Create a new media set and add the tape as a member, the tape will be erased -
Advice dailies workflow to LTO
robmaas replied to robmaas's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Thanks Lennart! Basically I store one backup on a HDD disk and from this I write to LTO, so I have one copy on HDD and one on LTO. I'm working with 2k footage now, so having backups in 2 HDD disks is too pricey. If I can use LTO at the price of $20 per tape min and put it in a safe meanwhile, and reuse the tapes after the project this would be perfect. Rob -
I've tried a selected folder restore from LTO5 to ext. harddrive with Retrospect 9 on Mac. The folder is restored, however the permissions of the ext. harddrive have changed thus I can not copy content to the external harddrive after the restore. I only can copy content to the restored folder on that external harddrive. I also can't change the read/write permission through "get info", only after I reformatted the drive it is possible to copy contents to it. Also, I can not move the restored folder to the trash bin, it just says on the ext. harddrive. Why is this? Does this always happen or is it random? Rob
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When trying to restore partially with Restore Assistant on Retrospect 9 first thing that happens is that I get the Mac-beach ball, after waiting for 10mins the restore script start but nothing (still) happens... is it normal it takes this long?
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It really took long (hours) so I finally had to abrupt the process, I just wanted to test if my LTO tapes I recently wrote to are OK. How sure can I be that if the writing process was completely successfully that the LTO backups are OK? Also I did something really stupid, I wanted to restore the files on another partition on the Mac but it deleted the entire partition so it took me half a day to reinstall the (main) partition.
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Missing mediasets/snapshots how to restore?
robmaas posted a topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
I'm missing a few past backups and mediasets, but how can I restore from these backups from LTO-5 tapes? -
Missing mediasets/snapshots how to restore?
robmaas replied to robmaas's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Would it be possible, to save time, to manually stop the rebuild after 5 - 10 minutes so that in restore assistant you will see the master directories again, select them and restore what's inside? Or should I really restore the last tape (I did check fast rebuild) completely? I tried it myself after stopping but now the restore script 'needs media' so guess it doesn't work like this and I have to restore at 3GB/m? Rob -
Missing mediasets/snapshots how to restore?
robmaas replied to robmaas's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Ok great, thank you, learnt the hard way ..from now on I will backup my rbc files. -
Restore from other software than Retrospect 9
robmaas replied to robmaas's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Yes, that's exactly what we're doing, Retrospect for tape archives and keeping a copy on a hard drive. -
Restore from other software than Retrospect 9
robmaas posted a topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Hi, I've been able to write to LTO-5 with Retrospect on a Mac OSX w/ 10.6.8 - I was wondering, future-wise, would anyone be able to restore the files from the LTO-5 tape which was written to with Retrospect with other software than Retrospect? All the best, Rob -
Restore from other software than Retrospect 9
robmaas replied to robmaas's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Hi Lennart, Thank you, I was just wondering if in case our company needs to restore in for say 5-10 years time vs the Retrospect roadmap? Rob