
Maser
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New paid upgrade version with lots of speed improvements. http://www.retrospect.com/en/documentation/user_guide/mac/release_notes - Steve
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Copying them -- when the Engine is not running (or when you can be sure they aren't being accessed) -- should be fine. I do that every so often when I make a backup of my drive containing my media sets. In general, though, I've never restored the backup copies. Usually if a Groom has thrown up errors in the media set, I'm not going to restore the catalog -- I'm going to rebuild it. - Steve
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That would probably require a rewrite of the program (to throw more work at the client instead of the engine). Maybe it's part of their plans, but who knows? Submit a feature request, I guess? (I'm not being glib, it's just that there's nothing you can do to change things with 11.5.3 behavior in this regard...)
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Yeah, in that case, all you can do is forget the entire snapshot.
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Backup OS X Server with Retrospect
Maser replied to XFox's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
If you know a lot about OS X Server -- you also know that's it's like Apple's "Red-Headed Step Child". They don't ship hardware with dual PSUs any more, etc... Even a MacPro is not considered a "server" at this point. You can't even buy a "Mac Mini Server" now as it's own, branded bundle. OSX Server really is just an advanced version of their client software (with more bells and whistles). I think a valid argument could be made that maybe retrospect should could stop/restart services as part of a backup -- put in a feature request. -
I would not be surprised if it's not the same code that checks for option-8 on the clients as well. I would agree that there should be a preference setting (maybe there's a hidden one?) that would let you toggle this off/on...
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Backup OS X Server with Retrospect
Maser replied to XFox's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
My only comment about this (w.r.t flushing the changes) would be -- can you schedule your backups at such time when nobody would be on the server (i.e. 3:00 a.m.?) That's what I do and, as such, I've not had problems (that I am aware of) of backups of "files on disk" not backing up what is "in memory" at any given point in time. That said -- I do not feel that my user base has anything running at 3:00 a.m. such that I'd need to worry about "in memory" services. YMMV. -
Ah, sorry! I misread your original post. My guess is it's the same privacy setting. Open a case on that one...
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What does the "Past Backups" actually show?
Maser replied to H.Pralow's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
So, if you haven't set any grooming settings, all you will see in Past Backups is the *last* backup of each volume/client you are backing up -- for each media set. That's the default view of Past Backups and that's what your screen shot above is accurately displaying. If you want to check to see if a backup activity executed successfully, you would check the "Activities" tab and the log for the activity. -
What does the "Past Backups" actually show?
Maser replied to H.Pralow's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
What are your groom settings for each media set? This looks normal for me if you are using the default (or no) groom settings... -
Sorry for shouting... If you upgrade from Mac OSX 10.9.5 (with the client installed) to Mac OSX 10.10 -- and you use Instant Scan -- the scan files will not update again after that. I believe the fix would be -- on your client you upgrade -- to: 1) Stop Instant Scan 2) Delete the folder /Library/Application Support/Retrospect/RetroISAScans 3) Restart Instant Scan This appears to fix the problem. The "RetroISAScans" folder should recreate and 10-30 minutes later, the scan files will get created. If you are installing the 11.5 client on a *clean install* 10.10 system, you may need to do the same thing (still testing that...)
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What I am seeing on my test instance of 11.5: If I make a folder on my desktop called "•DID THIS BACK UP" and put some files in it... If I use the wizard to back up "all files" of the entire volume of the engine computer, it *does* want to back up this folder in the preview: However, if I add my internal hard disk as a *client* computer, it will *not* back up this folder (which is how I'd expect it to work as a client):
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Actually, this is not a bug. They had removed the option-8 privacy feature in an earlier release (maybe 10.5) and then put it back when users (well at least me) complained about this. If something has an option-8 in the file/folder name, it's supposed to be private from the backup (this is a per-client setting, but I think you can set it on the server to override the client settings...)
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The only thing I noticed about 11.5 had to do with the client on my 10.9 servers. Instant Scan did not update once I upgraded the clients (as I did not reboot the servers.) I turned IS off on my servers and all was well. I found (later) that a reboot of the server would probably have fixed it.
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Searching the Operations Log
Maser replied to twickland's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
So it may be more about the size of the file than the number of lines. I bumped my searching to 23,000 lines -- where you failed -- and I could still search. 30,000 failed, but 25,000 still worked, so my sweet spot is different than yours... -
10 *still* requires users to be logged in for backup to work.
Maser replied to Dogwood's topic in Retrospect bug reports
It does not appear so. From what I can tell, there really hasn't been a lot of functional difference in the Mac Retrospect client (apart from the Instant Scan stuff) related to this. I think this is more an Apple issue than anything else... -
Searching the Operations Log
Maser replied to twickland's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
Using 11.5.1... My log file is currently 16.1MB. I had the preferences set to show me 10,000 lines. With that setting I can search the 10,000 lines (out of 38661 lines) I bumped this to 50,000 lines (so I could see the entire log -- which goes back to 12/10/13 -- and it does not search. So, there's probably some sweet-spot between 10K and 50K where this works... -
So, I noticed this here on my 3 OSX servers (one 10.9, two 10.8) 1) I had Instant Scan turned off on my 11.0 clients. After upgrading to 11.5, Instant Scan was unexpectedly turned back on. NOTE: I did not reboot the servers when upgrading the clients. 2) When Instant Scan was turned on, the Scan index did not build properly, so a number of daily backups went by where it left between 17 and 75 *thousand* files remaining. I have since turned Instant Scan off on my servers and things are back to normal, but be aware of this (to me) unexpected behavior when you upgrade.
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Backup OS X Server with Retrospect
Maser replied to XFox's topic in Retrospect 9 or higher for Macintosh
It does *not* stop/restart services. It just backs up the files as they are in use/open as they might be. So, I back up my servers at 2:00 a.m. when I am fairly sure there are no users on the servers writing data to the server. You could probably script your servers so they shutdown services (i.e. serveradmin stop afp) at a specific time and then restart them when you think the server will be done backing up. -
For those of you who haven't gotten the notification yet...
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He is using the test version (as am I) and the restore speeds have been increased dramatically. Or a better way to state that would be -- they have gone back to expected speeds. Still, that's a pretty fast restore test!