robek Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I am running R8 backing several OSX clients, which works quite nicely. However, I also need to backup OS9 client, and that fails miserably. The Quick Start guide states that backing up Classic Mac OS is supported, but provides no further details that I can see. The remote computer has Retro Client 5.1.157 installed and shows as source, although no volumes are reported. During defining the source, I was asked for password. Retro Client for OS9 has no option to enter passwort, so presumably it is empty. When running backup script, I get the following log: + Normal backup using Web Server OS9 Backup A at 6/22/2009 6:09 PM (Execution unit 1) To Media Set Web Server OS9 Set A... 6/22/2009 6:09:53 PM: Connected to Web Server Psychologie MapError: unknown Mac error 92 SMTP: opening addr 141.89.68.1 Can't access backup client Web Server Psychologie, error -1002 ( unknown Mac OS error)Web Server Psychologie, error -1002 (%s)] 6/22/2009 6:09:54 PM: Execution incomplete SMTP: opening addr 141.89.68.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 OS 9 clients are not supported. From the Read me in the client support section: PowerPC G3, G4, or G5, or any Intel processor Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.3.9, 10.4.11, or 10.5.5 or later RAM that meets Apple's guidelines for each OS Note: Backing up Mac OS X Server clients requires Retrospect Multi Server or Retrospect Single Server with available Server Client Licenses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robek Posted June 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Hmm, on page 14 in "Retrospect 8 Getting Started.pdf," one can read the following: On each machine on the network you want to back up with Retrospect, you must install the Retrospect Client software. There are Retrospect Client installers for Mac OS X, Classic Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. (Emphasis added by me.) If the above is not true and I can't really backup OS9 clients with R8, then is it possible to run R6 in parallel to R8 on the same computer to backup Mac OS Classic clients? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 is it possible to run R6 in parallel to R8 on the same computer to backup Mac OS Classic clients? Yes. Backup Sets are not interchangeable with Media Sets, but a machine running either (or both) the Retrospect 8 engine and/or Retrospect 8 console application can also run Retrospect 6.1 without issue. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosefR Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 WTF?! We just bought an update of Retrospect because of the DiskToDiskToTape feature AND because like robek we read of the Mac Os Classic clients in the getting started guide. I feel deceived... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 I am sorry you feel that way. We have never tried to hide the system requirements. We always post the Read Me and other documentation for everyone to see prior to purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosefR Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 You may want to edit the passage where it says "available installers for Classic Mac OS" from the getting started guide for Retrospect 8. As for us, we'll have to redesign our future Backup strategy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosefR Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Maybe someone has been there and can give a little advice? We are trying to backup the MacOS 9 clients sharing the complete hard disk and adding the Desktop and the Documents folder as favourites. Adding these shares to Retrospect 8 seems to work fine, but the log is full (hundreds) of this errors: MapError: unknown Mac error: -8783 and a couple of : MapError: unknown Mac error: 63 I have no clue if the backup is not working for certain files, what's wrong? Any other way of backing up MacOS clients? Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Any other way of backing up MacOS 9 clients? Retrospect 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosefR Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 So any idea why backing up the OS 9 clients as a network share throws out so many errors? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon88 Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Perhaps it's not productive to know why it doesn't work. Perhaps you should focus your attention on a workaround. No offence, but for help you need to provide more information. Like what your backup structure is and what you need to back up. Users of this forum don't read minds and have no clue what your resources are. If you expect fellow forum users to put effort into something you can use you should at least put some effort into explaining your problem in detail. That way other users with a similar problem might also benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosefR Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Sorry, I was trying to keep it short so nobody would mind reading it. We have about 80 computers at the office which are backed up at a daily basis. About 30 of them are old PPC G4s with MacOS9 (I know, but only the REAL OS9 works for us). Since we want to use a Disk2Disk2Tape backup procedure we decided to try sharing the complete Hard Drive of the OS9 systems (It has to be the whole drive, since the Desktop has to be backed up as well and it's a hidden system folder) We add the Clients to Retrospect 8 as a network share, only the Desktop and a folder with the user's files are selected as favourites and in the script. This is an exctract of the log: 8/20/2009 4:54:27 PM: Copying ROSI MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: 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error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 8/20/2009 4:54:27 PM: No files need to be copied 8/20/2009 4:54:41 PM: Snapshot stored, 346 KB 8/20/2009 4:54:47 PM: Execution completed successfully Duration: 00:00:19 (00:00:14 idle/loading/preparing) > Can't access volume Desktop Folder, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) 8/20/2009 4:57:19 PM: Copying Desktop Folder 8/20/2009 4:57:19 PM: No files need to be copied 8/20/2009 4:57:29 PM: Snapshot stored, 105 KB 8/20/2009 4:57:34 PM: Execution completed successfully Duration: 00:00:15 (00:02:41 idle/loading/preparing) 8/20/2009 4:57:35 PM: Copying MARêA MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: 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MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 MapError: unknown Mac error -8783 8/20/2009 4:57:35 PM: No files need to be copied 8/20/2009 4:57:53 PM: Snapshot stored, 701 KB 8/20/2009 4:57:59 PM: Execution completed successfully As you can see, this is not something I would trust as it is. Maybe someone smarter knows what is happening. Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon88 Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 I must agree with rhwalker (Russ), Retrospect 6 is your best option. What you are experiencing is very likely incompatibility. OS9 has been succeeded by OSX since 24 march 2001, so we are talking about eight years, which is a long time for the computer industry. I don't think it's realistic to expect programs to support their legacy that long (I'm not going into the (in)ability of reading old Backup Sets, that's something different). Unless anybody comes up with a solution for your specific problem (which I doubt, but I've been proven wrong before) you shouldn't expect a solution in the form of an update. You rather need to think if you really need the old OS9 and if it wouldn't be a good idea to upgrade your application by now. If you really can't do without OS9, your option is to get yourself Retrospect 6 and run that separate of Retrospect 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swalker Posted September 1, 2009 Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 How about running retrospect 6 to copy or backup OS9 files to a server and then use retrospect 8, running concurrently on the server to backup them up from there to tape or wherever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted September 1, 2009 Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 It's not the backup that is the problem; it's the restore - getting everything back to the right place with right metadata. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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