Don Lee Posted September 14, 2013 Report Share Posted September 14, 2013 Retro 10.2.0 (221) running on Mac OS X 10.8.x I would like to have a Mac OS X volume that is case sensitive, and back it up with Retrospect. I generally test before I rely on them, and I have found that case-sensitive restores do not work on local volumes, nor with a "new" client. If I have 3 files "FILE", "file" and "File" on a case sensitive volume, they are restored correctly on a Mac OS X 10.5 client running on a PPC machine. (client v 6.3.029), but that is the ONLY way I can get it to work correctly. On local volumes (local to the machine running the Retro engine) they come out as "FILE", "File-1" and "file-2". I get the same result on several variations of local volumes that are formatted as HFS case-sensitive. I have also tried this on a Mac OS X client running 10.6.8, and Retro client 10.2.0 (221). I formatted an external Firewire drive case-sensitive, journalled. I got the File-1, file-2 result. Obviously, this would not be acceptable where many files depend on case differences. Is case sensitivity supported? I am squeamish about relying on my 10.5 PPC system for something I need, and if I start doing this, it will be "production" for me. Thanks,.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Lee Posted September 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 Retrospect support says this is supposed to work. I'll see if I can tease out exactly why I am seeing failures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Lee Posted November 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 When I tried this back in September, I could not get the case-sensitive restore to work. Now that I go back and try to figure out exactly when it fails, I can't reproduce the failure. Let's write this off to gremlins, or cockpit error on my part, unless/until I can put together a real test case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Lee Posted November 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2013 Tried to reproduce this again yesterday, and could not do it. I've tried local (to the engine) filesystems, filesystems on Retro 6.x clients (Mac OS X 10.5), and Mac OS X 10.6 machine with a Retro 10.2 client, and all work flawlessly. I hate this. Maybe I was drunk at the time..... I'll keep trying. Having been convinced at one point that it was not working, I would be happier to find the precise combination of conditions that cause the failure, but so far, the bug has been too sneaky for me. I'm relying on the feature now, so if it fails, I'll know it, and it will matter. ;-> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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