Gogmagog Posted July 28, 2002 Report Share Posted July 28, 2002 I'll try and explain as thoroughly as I can. Server: G4 733 Quicksilver, 896 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD, OS X 10.1.5, Retrospect 5.0.205. Backing up 5 OS X clients, 1 OS 9 client, everynight to seperate Backup Sets (Monday, Tuesday etc etc), using various selectors (label, specific folder names, ie 'work' and special folders). Backing up to a Seagate Archive Python DDS-DC tape drive on a Mile Bluenote SCSI card using Sony DDS3 tapes. We have had no real problems like this, when we have had to restore specific files or folders we have had good success. Until we were broken into (on a Sunday morning) and our new G4 iMac stolen. OK the cost of the imac is covered by insurance, so the files are the most important – although resinstalling the software is a bit of a drag. Anyway we should be able to restore from Friday's backup right... wrong, we managed to get some (50% ish), but we also had 400 error messages of this kind: - File "Camp timetable.eps" appears incomplete, path: "Friday BU/Barnaby's HD/Users/barnabym/Public/Barnaby's Work /BARNABY - work not in progress/Y5 Homework/Y5 PM and links /Camp timetable.eps". - Can't write file "swimming clocks without han.eps", error -40 (file positioning error), path: "Friday BU/Barnaby's HD/Users/barnabym/Public/Barnaby's Work /BARNABY - work not in progress/Y5 Homework/Y5 PM and links /swimming clocks without han.eps". - Decompression failed due to corrupt input data. This doesn't look good, but we may be able to get these files if we do some individualy, but haven't tried yet. OK what about previous BU's? Similar result with the previous day's except that some of the files that had reported an error restored Ok and others that restored OK the first tim arounfd failed. Well I decided to take a closer look at the contents of our BU sets (hadn't really done this before as we assumed that we werer OK as mentioned before we have retrieved Bu's without hassle. To my horror found that apart from these restore errors it had missed out backing up whole folders. For example the G4 iMacs work folder had about 50% of its contents backed up but not the rest, our most important files, and this is about the third Mac out of the 7 to be backed up. The bizzare thing is that it has worked OK on my Mac (server) and some others but not all. I have even tried using the exact URL of the folder/file, and it still failed to get everything. Any ideas please, we dont want to rely on burning CD's from now on. Cheers in advance. Gog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted July 29, 2002 Report Share Posted July 29, 2002 In reply to: Backing up ... using various selectors (label, specific folder names, ie 'work' and special folders). In reply to: I decided to take a closer look at the contents of our BU sets (hadn't really done this before as we assumed that we werer OK as mentioned before we have retrieved Bu's without hassle. To my horror found that apart from these restore errors it had missed out backing up whole folders. Are the contents of the Snapshots related to your selectors? Can you give an example of a custom selector you have created? How are you observing that a particular folder had only a portion of its files backed up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gogmagog Posted July 29, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2002 Hi Dave... Can I call you Dave :-) Thanks for the quick reply. Firstly I think I may have got it sorted it out! As for your questions. "Are the contents of the Snapshots related to your selectors?" Yes, I'm 99% sure. "Can you give an example of a custom selector you have created?" I've been using the basic set of selectors supplied, for example on our OS 9 Macs we label any work that we want backed-up with the 'Essential' label and use the label selector for this purpose (I have found this to be the easiest and most successful way when we all used OS 9). For our OS X Macs I had been using diferent 'Enclosing Folder' selectors, eg contains "work", "helen's files" or whatever the user wants. "How are you observing that a particular folder had only a portion of its files backed up?" For instance a "work" enclosing folder in the snapshot had when compared to the original on the users Mac had only half the contents it should have and we even got an 'Execution completed successfully' message. I have since gone through and changed the selectors (still using the label one for OS 9). I now use the 'Volume name' selector and then 'and' followed by 'enclosing folder' matches (or contains) the word "work" or whatever. If a client requires several folders to be done I use the 'volume name' selector and 'and' for each enclosing folder. I do this for each of the OS X clients to be backed-up. I tried this last night and it seems to have worked OK, I even managed to restore various files without any execution errors. So far so good. Cheers Gog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted July 30, 2002 Report Share Posted July 30, 2002 In reply to: on our OS 9 Macs we label any work that we want backed-up with the 'Essential' label and use the label selector for this purpose (I have found this to be the easiest and most successful way when we all used OS 9) Actually, Finder labels work under OS X. Although the Aqua Finder currently doesn't give you the ability to set them, Retrospect will respect them if they're set. My favorite Finder replacement is Snax (http://www.cocoatech.com/), which will set labels for you in OS X. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbpassman Posted August 18, 2002 Report Share Posted August 18, 2002 I , too, have back up Execution Error question I also always get an Execution Error message re: Retrospect's operation log. That does not concern me since I am backing up from the very MAc running Retrospect and can understand that it cannot back up all of itself. HOWEVER repeatedly get an error with something in Var/log today's error log message was private var log netinfo system log what is that error? is it significant? what is the "var"? and why do I get this type of error? my habit is to quit all applications before running retrospect.The only 'application' left running is the Finder- as I do not think I can quit it , even in OSX. Can any of you advise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2002 Report Share Posted August 19, 2002 It's not unusual for the system log file to change. This file is a part of the system and it's normal for it to change during the backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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