cmcarthu Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 I have just upgraded to Retro Server 6.0 from 5.1. Unfortunately, I had no idea about the incompatibilities of the 5.1 sets before I upgraded so I'm following the advice of a posting on this forum and started transferring the data from current sets to new sets. I'm using the Tools-->Copy-->Transfer method. The first set went fine but I've been unable to transfer any further sets no matter how many different sets I try. The sets I've tried are from 99 to 200GB and the transfer process never reaches 4 GB. Its just hangs before that point (spinning beach ball) and I have to do a force quit. Hardware/Software: a G4, OS 10.3.9, two LaCie AIT2 drives. I simply have no idea how to troubleshoot this. I've tried turning off the snapshot transfer (as it's hung during this part also) but am at a loss what next to try using the transfer feature. After spending hundreds of dollars for the server and client software, I don't the solution to be to downgrade to version 5.1. My next step would be to retrieve the data portion by portion to a small external hard drive but it's frustrating for this software not to run like it should. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cindy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 Hi Cindy, How are the two AIT drives connected to your Mac? If they are SCSI, what brand and model of SCSI card(s) are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmcarthu Posted July 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 Naturally I forgot to include some info. The drives are both FireWire. Cindy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 Hi Cindy, What kind of Mac is this? The reason i ask is because I've seen issues with the Firewire ports on certain Macs, especially older ones and it seems related to the way there is only one controler for the 2 or 3 ports that can be on the Mac. Even G5's do this. Your next step could be to transfer the backup set to an external HD, as you said in your first post, or you might try slipping a Firewire card into the machine so you are transfering between the controller on the motherboard and the PCI bus rather than doing all of the work through the one Firewire contoller. I'm thinking that might be the better option at this point, and cheaper than buying an external HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.