cmartin Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Has anyone come up with a answer for this issue? I have a server running OS 10..5.6 and has been for a while. Also running Retro 8.0.6081 since it was available as an upgrade. Had been running Windows backups (5) only for a few days. All showed up and are fine and backup up for a few days. Yesterday I noticed that all the backups of the PC's failed yesterday and today. Went and looked and all the PC no longer show up and clients. I tried to reinstall one of the clients and still does not show up. The only thing that has changed is I added a few other scripts and backups of local folders and drives. I had a few issues adding them and did one restart of the server and finished the setup of these scripts. They ran fine the two nights in a row. Even though the window clients are gone the old OS 9 clients are still listed as on the network. I know that they are not supported but they do still show as available. What steps or things can I try to fix this. It seems like there are quite a few people who are having this issue. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 What happens if you restart the Retrospect Engine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmartin Posted April 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 That fixed it. Did not have a chance to restart the server yet today. I was going to do that later but not I do not have to. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsmogul Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 (split topic) When this problem first cropped up for me, i was running 10.4 server, and the "restart" retrospect engine didn't do anything in that OS. If I rebooted enough times the clients would show up again. After upgrading to 10.5.6 I can restart the engine from system preferences, but I haven't gotten the clients to show up for any length of time. I'll be curious to see if yours stays working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsmogul Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Cross posting in this split thread, since I muddied this one up: Ok, might have figure out what my problem was. DNS The clients need to be able to find the server by the DNS. We needed a record in DNS for the server and a reverse lookup. Once we added those records, I can see Sources. Now, I'll cross my fingers and see if I continue to see them after I get these scripts built. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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