etfs Posted May 6, 2002 Report Share Posted May 6, 2002 I purchased R 5.0 specifically to use on a Titanium Power Book running 9.2.2 connected by firewire to a LaCie DVD-RAM drive. As a test, I tried duplicating 9 G onto two disks. (for my own purposes, I want two 4.7 disks in sequence rather than using a single 9.4 disk.) The first disk went ok, though very slow, maxing out at 25 Mb and spending most of the time at 12 Mb. When I inserted the second disk, I got an 'erasing' message from R 5.0 that stayed on all night long, with no progress. The disk, a TDK DVD-Ram, was already formatted as a universal. The same thing happened with a LaCie disk. How do I convince R 5.0 to proceed onto the second or following disks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted May 6, 2002 Report Share Posted May 6, 2002 As a test, I tried duplicating 9 G onto two disks. (for my own purposes, I want two 4.7 disks in sequence rather than using a single 9.4 disk.) How did you get Retrospect to attempt a duplicate to multiple volumes? By definition, Duplicate takes the full contents of one volume and writes it to another; spanning removable media is only done in Backups. I'm confused. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etfs Posted May 6, 2002 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2002 I didn't realize that there was a disk write limitation in Duplicate. Are you certain? That would really be the pits, in that I've spent $600 just to do that very thing. I've looked through the User's Manual and don't see it addressed either way. Is there any way of moving a lot of data onto multiple DVD-RAM or DVD-Rs in OS Finder format? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 6, 2002 Report Share Posted May 6, 2002 Retrospect backups can span DVD-RAM or DVD-R, but duplicates are a 1 to 1 operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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