jacobpalme Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 I get the following error message from Retrospect 6, running under Mac OX X 10.6.8: Scanning incomplete, error -108 (not enough memory). I do not understand this error mesage. What kind of scan is incomplete? What does error -108 mean? What kind of memory is not enough? Not enough memory on the backup disk, or not enough memory in my computer har disk, or what else not enough of?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 The source volume is scanned before the actual file backup takes place. Hard disk space is not "memory". RAM is "memory". So Retrospect has run out of available RAM. Retrospect 6.x (and earlier) is not supported on Mac OS X 10.6 (or later). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodie40 Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 Is there a way to fix this? Do I need to delete files on the source to gain more memory? (It is an external hard drive.) Thanks, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 Hard disk space is not "memory". RAM is "memory". So Retrospect has run out of available RAM. Do I need to delete files on the source to gain more memory? (It is an external hard drive.) No.You should install more RAM. Or restart the Mac just prior to running the backup to make the most of the RAM you have. It is also a (slight) possibility that the source volume has problems. Run Apple's Disk Utility and repair the volume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designers Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 I have the same problem. The source volume is ok and I thing we have installes enough memory (8 GB). What is the reason for the error message -108? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 If I recall correctly, Retrospect 6 is only able to use a maximum of 2 GB of RAM. If you're running into an out of memory error while scanning a particular source volume, you may need to define subvolumes for that volume and back up the subvolumes separately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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