mbernhardt 1 Report post 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lennart_T 152 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mbernhardt 1 Report post 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ericfoos 1 Report post 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richy_Boy 18 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mbernhardt 1 Report post Posted January 18, 2013 These issues are completely off-topic from my question. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
philltamara 2 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
philltamara 2 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mbernhardt 1 Report post Posted January 22, 2013 It worked for me too. Case closed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
