Failed BackUp Attempts

[contrazzy]

Long story, sadly.

 

This thread moved from the OS X forum, where I accidentally put it

 

the first time. My apologies.

 

 

 

I have not used Retrospect before.

 

New installation of Express 5.0.205 from CD.

 

OS 9.0.4, Beige G3.

 

Tried to perform an immediate backup onto an outboard SCSI hard disk.

 

The disk was freshly reformatted for each backup attempt.

 

 

 

I thought there'd be room for the whole drive because the backup would

 

be compressed -- right? (Apparently not...) Out of a 19,000 file backup,

 

the disk was full with 88 files to go. (It would've taken only a few

 

percent compression.) **SIGH**

 

 

 

I removed some big sound files (1.4 gigs) and tried again. Now Retrospect

 

goes through the index-making routine, puts up the file transfer dialog

 

box, and then stops, refusing to transfer files. I've seen two less-than-

 

useful results -- "Incomplete" and "done" without any inkling of files

 

having been transferred. No error codes, either, unless I just don't

 

understand where to look... Probably 5 attempts, tweaking one thing

 

and another.

 

 

 

I tried backing up with extensions off. No can do. After rebooting with

 

CarbonLib enabled, I get a second complaint, "can't find InterfaceLib --

 

GetComponentResource." It's not on my hard disk. Nor was it on the hard

 

disk during the first backup attempt, which went pretty well until the

 

disk space ran out.

 

 

 

An attempt to install the latest updatest from the web site failed when

 

the new installation refused to recognize my serial number. (I re-tyed it

 

3 times, then finally had it proofread by an innocent bystander.) It works

 

for the installation from the CD, but not for the installation of the

 

download. Grrrrrrrr!! (It's version 5.0.238)

 

 

 

I finally gave up on a backup to the hard disk and cloned it instead. That

 

gets me by for the moment. I ran out of disk space on the clean outboard

 

drive with 18 files to go, even though -- by the numbers -- I should've

 

had plenty of room. Is the Retrospect index file that big??? Compressed

 

a couple of big directories and finally made it fit. Grrrrrrr!!

 

 

 

I *would* like to get the backup software working, else it will go back

 

where it came from.

 

Can anyone help me understand what the $!#@*! is going on?

 

 

 

Thanks in advance...

[AmyJ]

In reply to:

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The disk was freshly reformatted for each backup attempt.

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What format? Standard? Extended?

 

 

 

What kind of files? Do you have multiple music or audio files?

 

 

 

 

[contrazzy]

The disk was formatted extended (HFS+). There were several large

 

sound files in the original backup. I moved them to another computer

 

to reduce the data space required to clone the disk in the later attempts.

 

 

 

I'm wondering...

 

why would the nature of the files matter? I'd expect large files like

 

sound or graphics to use the disk space more efficiently, and the small

 

files to use it less efficiently. In any case, yes, there were some large

 

sound files, and a couple of large movie files.