Mayoff Posted May 5, 2003 Report Share Posted May 5, 2003 Available Features -Drag and Drop user interface for manual changing of tapes -Bar Code Support to speed tape access -Storage Slot Memory. Retrospect will remember the tape locations in the library, even after opening the loader door, quitting or restarting the computer. -Cleaning Tape Reservation. The user can specify which slot contains a cleaning tape. This slot is ignored when moving or erasing media. -Automatic Tape Cleaning -Multiple SCSI Host Adapter Support. Allows users to attach drives from a single library to different SCSI Host Adapters to increase performance -Multiple Drive/Multiple Execution (MDME). Simultaneous read/write operations to multiple drives. -Import-Export Slot Support. Allows users to move tapes to and from the library slots without opening the main door -Multiple Import-Export Slot Support. Allows users to move tapes to and from the library slots without opening the main door -Automatic changing of tapes during scheduled backup or restore -Retrospect can transfer data between tape drives and backups can span between tape drives. -Multiple Drive Support when scanning media or erasing all media -Drive Binding. Organizational feature that allows user to bind Backup Sets to particular drives. -Add Tape Member to Backup Set. Organizational feature that allows users to pre-determine what Backup Set a tape will belong to. Unsupported Features -Fibre Channel is not supported Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pingu Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 When are these features due to be available to Mac customers? We have been waiting for years for some of this functionality > Available Features > -Drag and Drop user interface for manual changing of tapes > > -Bar Code Support to speed tape access > > -Storage Slot Memory. Retrospect will remember the tape locations in the > library, even after opening the loader door, quitting or restarting the > computer. > > -Cleaning Tape Reservation. The user can specify which slot contains a > cleaning tape. This slot is ignored when moving or erasing media. > > -Automatic Tape Cleaning > > -Multiple SCSI Host Adapter Support. Allows users to attach drives from a > single library to different SCSI Host Adapters to increase performance > > -Multiple Drive/Multiple Execution (MDME). Simultaneous read/write operations > to multiple drives. > > -Import-Export Slot Support. Allows users to move tapes to and from the > library slots without opening the main door > > -Multiple Import-Export Slot Support. Allows users to move tapes to and from > the library slots without opening the main door > > -Automatic changing of tapes during scheduled backup or restore > > -Retrospect can transfer data between tape drives and backups can span between > tape drives. > > -Multiple Drive Support when scanning media or erasing all media > > -Drive Binding. Organizational feature that allows user to bind Backup Sets to > particular drives. > > -Add Tape Member to Backup Set. Organizational feature that allows users to > pre-determine what Backup Set a tape will belong to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 I wish I had a good answer to this question. Dantz considers these features a high priority, unfortunately we have a few other top issues that need addressing immediately like lifting the 1TB limit and improved Unicode Support. Both of these fixes require a large amount of engineering and will take time. To be notified when loader support is improved on the Mac, join this mailing list: http://list.dantz.com/mailman/listinfo/advanced_library_mac Notification for 1TB and Unicode issues are at: http://list.dantz.com/mailman/listinfo/terabyte_limit http://list.dantz.com/mailman/listinfo/unicode_support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlejohn Posted May 30, 2003 Report Share Posted May 30, 2003 I would like to add my desire to see these features on the Mac ASAP. Most important is the ability for Retrospect to remember which tape is loaded into which of the 15 slots in my Autoloader. The lack of this feature is wasting lots of my time, especially when new sets are created. Cheers, John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scstr Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Has this support now happened in Retrospect 6 for Mac OS X? Suman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Hi Retrospect 6.0 has a lot of improvements in regard to tape support. I suggest downloading the trial version and giving it a try. Can you be more specific with your question please? Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strauch_S Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Tape Library Features in 6.5 Professional version or in Multi Server / Server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted October 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 server editions only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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