aerodrome Posted September 3, 2004 Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 So we are trying to back up our network to a raided drive comprised of 2, 1 terabyte lacie drives. We are using retrospect 5.x and are having 0 success. We are doing a file back up (trying to) and everything looks like it will work just fine. We were worried about exceeding a 1 tb limit with retrospect 5.x so we made 2 scripts. One to back up our machines, one to back up our shared network drives. This keeps everything under a terabyte. Upon scanning the network drives It reports that there is only 14 gb on the network... our network has about 500 gb on it.. Anyhow.. aside from that the script doesnt run and says there is insufficient space and an additional 14 gb is needed.. So I guess i have two problems really.. 1. that the space isnt being reported correctly, 2. doesnt seem to be recognizing our firewire drive. Has anyone else used a firewire drive with retrospect 5.x that could shed some light on their settings and how they got it to work? -A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Hi Retrospect 5.x can't properly read 1TB volumes or create backups larger that 1 TB. It may be that your disks are too large for Retrospect 5.x to read properly. Are you backing up the network machines via Retrospect client or filesharing? If you are using filesharing, have you configured Retrospect to automount the shared volumes? Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llorenz Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 "Retrospect 5.x can't properly ... create backups larger that 1 TB" Is this true? We're backing up 1.5 TBs to one backup set and everything seems to be okay. With Retrospect 5.x backup up multiple server volumes, Win 2000, mounted via AFP. Please say it isn't so. Lloyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llorenz Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 Correction: Our backup is in two catalog sets, the largest of which backs up 500 GBs, and then incrementally for a month, so we most likely do not have over 1 TB in any one set. What will happen when we do hit the limit? Will we know? TIA Lloyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Hi You will know. There are some addressing limitations that will stop the backup cold. You'll get a warning about "can't add that much data to backup set". Basically Retrospect 5.x can't see anything bigger than a terrabyte. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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