Andy_Potvin Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Good Day All, I apologize in advance if this topic has been covered, I did a cursory search and did not immediately locate useful information. My problem is this: I am backing up using Retrospect 6.1.138 on a G5 running OSX 10.5.1. Months ago the Retrospect kind started acting up and I stopped trying to deal with it being busy. I am revisiting my old partner (Retrospect) and I am having a bit of trouble getting the software to recognize media it has written. If I do an immediate backup of ,say my "desktop" to a new backup set on DVD+R everything seems to go quite fine. I can restore that information immediately, as long as I do nothing like eject the disk or restart Retrospect. If I eject the disk and reload it Retrospect see's it as Erased. If I quit Retrospect and restart Retrospect it sees the media as Erased. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks In advance Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 What model of drive are you using? What brand of media are you using? What version of the Driver Update are you using? When I have seen this, it has been caused by bad media or a failing drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Potvin Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Excellent questions: Drive Model - Stock Apple Drive - Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D Version A606 _Retrospect Driver Pioneer DVD RW (5.12) Media - Memorex DVD+R RW Driver Update - Retrospect version 6.1.138 launched at 2/12/2008 8:58 AM Retrospect Driver Update, version 6.1.13.101 I am really hoping that the drive is not failing... it has been very serviceable for thee other tasks I do, burning CD's et al. As far as bad media I would be hard pressed to believe all 25 DVD's I have tried are bad. Best Regards and Thanks Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Andy, You may want to try reverting back a few versions of RDU - there have been some issues with some of the recent RDUs, and your drive is not a recent one that would require a recent RDU. Try perhaps RDU 6.1.11.101 or so. The RDU version history, with links to downloads, is here: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=7886&p=2 But it may be that the drive is beginning to go south. Retrospect has an odd algorithm, at least with tape, that declares the media to be "erased" if it sees an error when it tries to read the header at the beginning of the backup set member, so I suspect that this behavior might be similar with DVD. russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Potvin Posted February 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 I tried reverting to an earlier Driver update and it initially appeared to work.... However it turns out that it is not. Any other thoughts other than the drive is dying. Thanks In Advance Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted February 14, 2008 Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 You might try cleaning the lens, or trying another vendor's media. But it doesn't sound good. russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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