wwwolf Posted July 5, 2016 Report Share Posted July 5, 2016 Hi Everyone, I'm just putting this down in case it will help anyone in the future. I was able to track down and solve an issue with the Retrospect Windows client that stumped support. I'm running a Retrospect Windows 10.5.0.110 and was trying to backup a Windows server with a matching client. It had been working for a year, but all of a sudden the client was refusing to backup. I think it was stalling on either the 'Starting' step or the 'Scanning' step. No error message, it would just hang there forever. I had to basically reboot booth the server and client to get them talking again. I tried uninstalling the client and installing it again. The software would install fine, but when I connected to it from the Retrospect server it would hang forever after entering the client's password. And even if I restarted everything it would hang if I went to the 'Volumes' tab. Long story short, the problem had nothing to do with the Retrospect client itself, but with the CD-ROM of all things. I had a disk that had been sitting in the client system untouched for a year, collecting dust. Eventually Windows was unable to read it and would stall out. Windows had a timer that would cause it to give up reading the disk after a couple of minutes, but Retrospect would not. It just continued to try and read the CD-ROM over and over and over again. Removing the CD-ROM solved the problem. If you ever get stuck like this I recommend checking all of your system volumes to make sure they're accessible, Retrospect might be stalling on one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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