cf87ab84-c226-4c03-9f9b-e87a74698b95 Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 Don't see any mention of updates in this forum category, so.... Back in March, Eric Ullman noted a loooooong overdue update for Retrospect 8.x for Mac: Early July, 2011----------------- Retrospect 8.x for Mac WebDAV remote storage access Mac OS X "Lion" support New Retrospect Client for Mac 64-bit user-initiated backup and restore on demand improved Mac OS integration Can anyone in the know comment on whether there is any hope of this reaching fruition, whether in July or December? Sorry, I guess I'm kinda jaded now, since we've had the promise of a good program for a few years now w/o the implementation living up to it yet. Do we think there will be massive bug-fixing and improvements? Please say yes. Thanks for any info, Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 We are still working on this release and have an internal schedule (that I can't talk about). One of our top priorities is to make sure it fully support Lion, so we are in communication with Apple to make sure we have everything we need from them. We have already spent a full week of testing in the Apple labs and have more trips scheduled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cf87ab84-c226-4c03-9f9b-e87a74698b95 Posted June 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 We are still working on this release and have an internal schedule (that I can't talk about). One of our top priorities is to make sure it fully support Lion, so we are in communication with Apple to make sure we have everything we need from them. We have already spent a full week of testing in the Apple labs and have more trips scheduled. Thanks for the reply, Robin. Can you give us any sort of ballpark idea? And is this to be a new release of the engine/console, or just the client? Even if the engine/console remains the same, we really need a client that doesn't drop offline seemingly at random (or when logging out of Snow Leopard accounts) and that can handle changes in network interface w/o having to manually quit the process and relaunch. Next question: why will this forum not email me when there's been a reply? Am I the only one? I'm subscribed to the thread, but get no notification. I believe the prior forum "degenerated" to that as well. Thx, Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 The next version has a new console, engine and client. We are working on the network bugs you mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Next question: why will this forum not email me when there's been a reply? Am I the only one? I'm subscribed to the thread, but get no notification. I believe the prior forum "degenerated" to that as well. That works fine for me (which it didn't in the old forum). Check your email address in "My settings" (above). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cf87ab84-c226-4c03-9f9b-e87a74698b95 Posted June 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 I reset my account settings here (although I didn't change anything) and got a couple of notifications just now. One issue, however-- SpamAssassin tags them w/ a relatively high score of over 3 (which w/ my settings is "spammy" and "***JUNK MAIL***" is inserted into the subject line). You may want to try to address these 2 "hits" in order to keep forum messages from being dropped by certain mail systems: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=3.117 required=3 tests=[MISSING_MIMEOLE=1.843, RDNS_NONE=1.274] autolearn=no It appears your mail server for the forum has no reverse DNS entry. This can cause many systems to refuse messages outright. I'm less familiar w/ "MISSING_MIMEOLE"... Thanks again for the info. FT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlucia Posted June 26, 2011 Report Share Posted June 26, 2011 Robin, I'm hoping that the snapshot building has been optimized to speed it up a tad. I'm on a Xeon DC 2.66 w/12GB of RAM and the snapshot it's building is about 2.5 million files. It takes a minimum of 4 hours for this process. It also takes longer as the media set grows. Otherwise, I've been one of the lucky few that Retro 8 has been working at several sites without any major headaches . BTW, thanks for all your support over the years, without you I would have ditched Retro a long time ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Robin, et al, For those of us who don’t want the iOS on our desktops (i.e. not Lion early adopters) are there plans to upgrade Retrospect beyond just getting it to work with Lion? That is, will the “new improved” version of Retrospect run under 10.6.8 (or later but pre 10.7) or do we have to upgrade to 10.7.x to get whatever fixes are in the works? Regards, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cf87ab84-c226-4c03-9f9b-e87a74698b95 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 The next version has a new console, engine and client. We are working on the network bugs you mentioned. Will there be or have there been any efforts to make the Console work better w/ multiple servers/engines? I am a consultant w/ over half a dozen clients running Retro 8 on their networks (call me a glutton for punishment, I guess), and I can't tell you how many times the Console jumps around in the sidebar after I've clicked on one entry, or how many times it "mixes and matches" data and information from more than one Retrospect engine (yeah, that's fun). I've even had the pleasure multiple times of having entire scripts come up empty or nearly so, including just now. For an extra bit of fun, this latest failed script's Summary screen showed its Rule as "Sarah's MacBook"....which, of course, is a client machine, not a rule. So, clearly, the communication from Console to Engine is anything but reliable. After a year's time, we need improvement here. For those of us who don’t want the iOS on our desktops (i.e. not Lion early adopters) are there plans to upgrade Retrospect beyond just getting it to work with Lion? That is, will the “new improved” version of Retrospect run under 10.6.8 (or later but pre 10.7) or do we have to upgrade to 10.7.x to get whatever fixes are in the works? I, for one, will be extremely irritated if add'l hardware/system versions that are suffering under 8.2 currently get shut out from this update. Sorry, but 8.2 has been a year-long public beta, nothing more. A program w/ such an important task cannot be hung out to dry for a year at a time while we users struggle to make it work w/ no firm roadmap or commitment from its maker. Anyway, I have several 10.5 systems (even a PPC one) running Retro 8.2 right now, and to finally, *hopefully* get a properly functioning program had better not require new hardware/software. If 8.2 were a polished product and we were talking about some *upgrade* to v9.0 or something, I could understand...but the current state is anything but polished, and we need a completion of v8.x into a reliable product first. Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f30e6e60-a263-4d69-8f60-c92703669308 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 That is, will the “new improved” version of Retrospect run under 10.6.8 (or later but pre 10.7) or do we have to upgrade to 10.7.x to get whatever fixes are in the works? I'd say the odds of that are about zero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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