Guest jmberry Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 I've inherited troubleshooting our company's Retrospect backup system and have my first question. Our Xserve is running Retrospect version 6.1.230 and the log shows that one of the user clients is deferring the backup when she is doing no such thing. That machine is a PC running Windows Vista with Retrospect Client version 7.6. It doesn't appear that this computer has ever been backed up. How do I get Retrospect to back this computer up? Thanks, Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Try the Retrospect Client for Windows 7.0.112 found here: http://www.roxio.com/enu/support/retrospect/archived.html (Click on the size in the rightmost column to download). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmberry Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Try the Retrospect Client for Windows 7.0.112 found here: http://www.roxio.com/enu/support/retrospect/archived.html (Click on the size in the rightmost column to download). I just followed your advice and will report back. Thanks very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmberry Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 I applied your fix, but now seem to have another problem. I can see the user's machine under "client config"and all appears okay, but still isn't getting backed up. I then clicked on "add by address" and it appears that this machine shares the same IP address with a mac with OS10 on our network. I then corrected the mac's IP address and thought all would work okay, but it isn't. Somehow Retrospect reverts the mac machine back to the same IP address as the windows Vista machine. How can I get things working right? Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 I applied your fix, but now seem to have another problem. I can see the user's machine under "client config"and all appears okay, but still isn't getting backed up. I then clicked on "add by address" and it appears that this machine shares the same IP address with a mac with OS10 on our network. I then corrected the mac's IP address and thought all would work okay, but it isn't. Somehow Retrospect reverts the mac machine back to the same IP address as the windows Vista machine. How can I get things working right? Jim Do you have static IP addresses or do you run DHCP? If you have static IP addresses, make sure the computers have their own address. Restart the client(s) for good measure. Then forget the client from the Retrospect server and add it again. If you have DHCP, you can't add clients by address, since the address will change. Not really sure what to do here, since you can't have the same address on two machines. I guess one is using a static IP from inside the DHCP range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmberry Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 Do you have static IP addresses or do you run DHCP? If you have static IP addresses, make sure the computers have their own address. Restart the client(s) for good measure. Then forget the client from the Retrospect server and add it again. If you have DHCP, you can't add clients by address, since the address will change. Not really sure what to do here, since you can't have the same address on two machines. I guess one is using a static IP from inside the DHCP range. One machine had a static IP and the other did not. It appears all our machines have static IP addresses so I changed the oddball to a static one. I have restarted both machines and am awaiting the outcome. Thanks, Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmberry Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 I resolved the issue. After I fixed the IP addresses I then found both machines were associated with a missing catalog file. I was able to "forget" that file and choose the proper catalog file and now they've both been backed up. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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