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If you have a mobile client, one that disconnects and reconnects from the LAN (wired) Retro 15.6 will fail when the client returns. It's happened to me twice that Retro doesn't recognize the client when it again plugs in / appears on the network on it's next scheduled backup. The error is "Client unavailable." I believe this to be a long standing issue. The Client in System Preferences seems not to give any bad indications and show status as normal, but it clearly isn't. The symptom is the client is un-recognized when refreshing or locating it, it can be seen after such a failure to run a script. I suspect this is a problem with (Retrospect's) multicast service as compared with Apple's Bonjour service. Even a desktop that has been restarted occasionally fails on multicast (due to sleep recognition issues previously reported). Apparently is still runs backups probably because the last time this happened I located to a fixed address. I can report a workaround to this issue which seems to work to recover from the error. Just log out the user and log back in, then launch the Retro app to locate the source client. Retrospect server then recognizes this client on future backup scripts. -
My client didn't run automatically because for some unknown reason, the Multi-cast shows as the port turned off after a normal restart and could not be re-enabled manually from the client's preferences. I had to do one of the following (chose the first one) to manually run a backup. Seems to happen whenever this laptop is taken away from the port used in a fixed set up on my LAN: Direct access entry port assignment instead of Multi-cast. Uninstall client and reinstall thereby re-opening the port. Remove the client at the engine or Retro Server and reinstall it there. I cannot see a way to troubleshoot the cause further. If anyone has ideas on this forum, please advise. I consider the above no more than work-arounds to the actual problem. I believe this problem goes back a long, long while. However this is the first time it has reared it's ugly head in a while.
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Retrospect Client 10.5.0 (110) on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 10586.14 I am submitting this to maybe assist others who encounter the same issues because AFAIK our Client system is “vanilla”. Windows 10 was clean installed on the Client, not as an upgrade. On the Client the Windows Event Viewer/Application log showed VSS 8194 “Errors” during Retrospect backup (ie not merely “Warnings” nor “Information”) This VSS issue was resolved by applying Rich_B_72’s solution . However then CAPI2 513 “Errors” became visible in the Client’s Windows Event Viewer/Application log during Retrospect backup. This CAPI2 issue was resolved by applying Fearless96’s version of the solution suggested by szz43.
