davie_chen Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 I assume some source volumes contains large aount of folders such as (1 million folder). 32bit retrospect has only limited virtual memory space. If possible, use 64bit Retrospect to back up large volumes in 64bit OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davie_chen Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 If you have already 64bit OS, you can run 64bit retrospect in the 64bit OS, and back up your data in 32bit window 2003 through client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted April 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 I think the problem is Davie that I believe these backups were working fine in 7.6, so it's not a 32-bit platform limitation, but possibly a bug in 7.7. A 32-bit OS can access 3GB of RAM, which is plenty for just about all backup scenarios in my opinion. Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davie_chen Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Normally, a 32bit App in 32bit OS can only access less than 2GB virtual memory(VM) space. Also, some runtime library will occurpy some VM space. Considering memory fragments, to allocate a large contineous memory (such as 256MB in Mwilliamson 's case) is possible to fail). Currently I still suspect 7.6 can succeed in the same case. Maybe when using 7.7, source volumes have changed (i.e., there are more folders in source volumes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted April 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Can anyone confirm the matching is back to 7.6 speeds now using 7.7? I'm tempted to upgrade again today as I'm getting win7 errors all over the place. Thanks, Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 I'm not sure about the file matching speeds, but as it stands right now, 7.7 is not a stable solution for restoring Windows Server 2008. I'm still waiting to hear from EMC support on a fix for this. The last that I heard, they were having other problems when testing Server 2008 boxes. I, too, am getting the Windows 7 backup errors. Maybe we should just wait until version 8 for Windows :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robvil Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Emulator Have you heard any news? I do not dear upgrade to 7 before thinks starts to work. Regards Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Matching speeds are no longer an issue with the latest version. It is one of the bugs we fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted April 20, 2010 Report Share Posted April 20, 2010 The only news that I have heard is that EMC is aware of the Windows Server 2008 restore problems that I've been having (both Server 2008 Cluster configs and Windows Update SQL update problems after restore). They have nothing new to report, but I'm just happy that they are aware of the problems. So I'm still stuck on 7.6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robvil Posted April 20, 2010 Report Share Posted April 20, 2010 Emulator How do you handle Windows 2008 AD restore with ver. 7.6 as this is not working? Regards Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted April 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2010 Mayoff, what is the timeline for fixing the 2008 Server restore problems? We're going to be migrating to 2008 R2 AD soon (from 2000), so will need a reliable backup solution ready. Are there work arounds at present (under 7.7)? Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted April 20, 2010 Report Share Posted April 20, 2010 Hi Robert... There are two ways that I have found to get Server 2008 restores working on 7.6: 1. Use the Retrospect "RegCopy" program to restore the registry: http://forums.dantz.com/showtopic.php?tid/30809/ 2. Install a copy of SQL Server 2005 Express on the Server 2008. For some odd reason, this enables Retrospect 7.6 to restore the 2008 registry: http://forums.dantz.com/showtopic.php?tid/32549/ Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robvil Posted April 20, 2010 Report Share Posted April 20, 2010 Thank you. Do you know if the regcopy work around also restore AD correctly? And what´s the logic by installing SQL express helps restoring registry. Odd! Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 I'm not sure about the AD restores. My test boxes, all members of a domain, work fine. But the domain functional level is not 2008; all domain controllers in our test environment are running Server 2003. As for MSSQL fixing the problem of 2008 restores, I have no idea. I literally stumbled upon this by accident! Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted April 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 (edited) edit: being dim. Rich Edited April 22, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Robin... Do you have any updates on the Server 2008 restore problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 With the exception of the problem you reported (still under investigation) no other issues exist with 2008 restores as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordyM Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 I just upgraded to 7.7 325 and now my Retrospect Multi-Server is crashing. I get an error - "tmemory.cpp-382" and Retrospect crashes completely. How do I fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 I just upgraded to 7.7 325 Contact support: http://www.retrospect.com/contactsupport (This is a user-to-user forum.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffshep Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 I too have upgraded to 7.7.325 and I am also having the memory crash errors. tmemory.cpp-382 error. Has there been a resolve? Never an issue until this upgrade. If there is not a fix is there a graceful way to down grade? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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