mbernhardt Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 We have several SPARC Solaris 8/9 clients. We have had not problem with them through retrospect 7.7. But they don't work anymore with 8. Retrospect failed to let us know that when they were promoting 8 to us. Retrospect does communicate with the solaris client but can't read the file system. When trying to view volumes from the server, I get the error "can't track volumes error -1101 Backups do not happen. Has anyone figured out how to make it work? What's it going to take to get Retrospect to put a few hours into this and make it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 What's it going to take to get Retrospect to put a few hours into this and make it work? As this is just a user-to-user discussion, I suggest you contact Retrospect Support:http://www.retrospect.com/en/support/contact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbernhardt Posted January 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 I did contact support and all they told me was that SPARC isn't supported any more. I responded with the same question I asked here but they didn't deign to answer me. My hope is that someone has figured out a workaround. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ericfoos Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 I got the same error in Retro 8.1 with 2 windows clients that are running in a VM. They work fine in my 7.6 installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 I've not seen a problem backing up Windows client VMs within VMware, using the 8.1 client. Something to note, when upgrading a client from 8.0 to 8.1, make sure you uninstall the client and blitz the remaining Retrospect folder before installing 8.1, else you'll see Instant Scan backups. Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbernhardt Posted January 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 These issues are completely off-topic from my question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philltamara Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 I am testing copying the missing retropds_solaris.pdu from version 7.6 Multiserver to the Retrospect 8 folder. I am now trying a Solaris 10 backup. The problem connecting to Solaris is fixed by getting a copy of the retropds_solaris.pdu into the Retrospect 8 folder. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philltamara Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 My back up of Solaris 10 is in progress with the Windows 8 Multiserver. The solution in my post above does seem to work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbernhardt Posted January 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 It worked for me too. Case closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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