artgekko Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Specs: G5 Xserve running 10.3.8 ADIC FastStor2 tape machine w/ Super DLT Retrospect Server 6 We had been running successful nightly recycle backups for six+ months, when about three weeks ago they became intermittently successful. Some wouldn't finish and would have to be interrupted, others just errored out. When I try to configure the devices through Retrospect, the program hangs (spinning ball) and I have to force quit. The only time it will recognize and scan the tape library is immediately following a server restart. Even then, if I scan the device, see that everything is there, and then quit out of Retropect (after verifying the schedule), that night's backup won't execute as planned. Once this pattern became evident I ran updates to both the server (it had been at 10.3.6) and Retrospect, so now we're at 6.2.102. The same issues are occurring. I also pulled all the old media for permanent archive and put new tapes in the drive. No dice. I worked my way through the trouble shooting part of the manual and nothing seems to fit. I tried moving the "Retrospect" folder out of "Library/Preferences" but that didn't help. We're riding a ragged edge of disaster here without reliable backups. HELP! Thanks, -Rita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hi This sure sounds like a SCSI communication problem to me. What is the make and model of your SCSI card? What driver version are you using? Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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