PitterPat Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Hi, I've set up a new PC and installed my old version of RS (same version as on old PC);. All my jobs and such appear to have transferred properly. At least they're there and show up in RS. BUT. The jobs won't run. In desparation I wiped one of the backup drives and deleted the catalog file and was able to get one job to work. But the other jobs still won't start. I don't know what's missing. Do I have to delete the catalog for all jobs? That means I lose all older versions of the files. Any ideas? Thanks PP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Is this proactive backups or "normal" backups? What does the log say? What if you execute an immediate backup, what happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PitterPat Posted January 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Hi, These are all proactive jobs. That's the only kind we use. The Operations Log shows absolutely no activity other than from the on job that ran by clearing the catalog and backup set. Is there another log? The only way I know to force an immediate backup is to double click on the script in the Activity Monitor/Proactive tab and select Always Active. That forces the job script status to display "active". At the same time, the backup set shows "ready" and the source shows "ASAP". Does any of this help diagnose the problem? Thanks, PP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 I guess it's the backup sets that are not available. (Or are they called media sets nowadays?) For my second guess i say it can't find the clients. Can you browse the backup/media sets for snapshots and files? Can you browse (one of) the client's files? You might want to create a "normal" script for test purposes. Add one source that you know is available, add one backup/media set used by the proactive backups, schedule it 2 minutes later than "now". Observe what happens in two minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PitterPat Posted January 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Finally gave up; uninstalled; wiped all traces of RS; and re-installed. Now working fine but I lost all acrhived backups. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofstede Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Just for my information: Did you follow the instructions in the manual and / or knowledge base? There is a section that describes how to move Retrospect to a new server, including all settings and backup sets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PitterPat Posted January 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Yes I did. But something apparently went wrong. Just couldn't get it to work. Thanks for the feedback, PP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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