thraxisp Posted September 24, 2005 Report Share Posted September 24, 2005 My Powerbook died, and I need to restore my backup, or parts of it onto another machine (a Mini). It seems that the Mini won't recognize the DVDs writted on the Powerbook. Is this a limitation or a fault of the software? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted September 24, 2005 Report Share Posted September 24, 2005 Quote: It seems that the Mini won't recognize the DVDs writted on the Powerbook. Can you be more specific please? - What exactly are you doing? - What exactly are you seeing when you do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thraxisp Posted December 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 Quote: Quote: It seems that the Mini won't recognize the DVDs writted on the Powerbook. Can you be more specific please? - What exactly are you doing? - What exactly are you seeing when you do it? Sorry for the delay, I gave up on restoring information from backups and recreated it based on a clone. My 15" Al Powerbook motherboard failed suddenly a few months ago. I had a number of backup sets that I could recover critical data from. I tried copying the software (Retrospect 6.1) over to my Mini. The first set of backup disks weren't recognized as they were DVD-RWs. The second set were DVD-Rs. There weren't recognized either. The drive in the Mini will normally read DVD-Rs written in the Powerbook. It looks like I'm stuck with the lowest common denominator (CD-Rs). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Quote: The first set of backup disks weren't recognized as they were DVD-RWs. The second set were DVD-Rs. There weren't recognized either What sort of drive is in the Mini? Retrospect requires a writable optical drive in order to read data on its disks. In other words, in order for Retrospect to read a CD-R disk, the drive must be able to write CD-R disks. In order for it to read DVD-R disks, the drive must be able to write DVD-R disks. The fact that a drive might be able to read burned DVD-R data disks doesn't mean that the same drive can read Retrospect's packet written DVD-R volumes. It's how the software has always worked. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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