randad Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 MacPro Intel 10.5.2 and OS X Server HP Storageworks DAT72 USB Retro: 6.1.138 Driver update: 6.1.14.101 Source: a variety of folders on a single 500gb internal drive as well as job folders on 9 workstations on a local network. I'm contracting with a creative services department that has used Retrospect for years on tape, CD and DVD with ZERO issues until I rolled everything over to the current configuration 3 months ago. Every time I stop a script to run another one that has become a higher priority, I get a message the catalog is corrupted and can't be found. Once I point to it again my choice is to rebuild the bad one or create a new one. Starting over and over is putting my department in jeopardy and aggravating management. Footnote: After explaining my situation to Ensignia last week, they let me talk to a tech. His quickly told me to dump the DVD backup process and go to tape, which I did. This didn't cure the problem and I'm getting a lot of heat for this. HELP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 Have you tried saving the catalog file to a different disk? Do you have this same problem with Retrospect running on a different Mac? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randad Posted May 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 The app and catalog file are in the same folder on the internal startup drive. The data files being backed up are on another internal drive and the remote workstations. The same procedure was running fine on a G4, OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) and to DVD's with no problems. That catalog was in the app folder also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randad Posted May 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 I moved the catalog folder to the same drive as the data files and started a new set again. After copying about 6gb of data I hit the stop button and restarted it after a few minutes. I'll try this again in a few minutes. Why would moving the catalog file make a difference now? For the last 6 years that I've been doing this for this company, the set has been in the application folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 The catalog could be sitting on a bad sector of the disk, or another disk issue could be causing the catalog to keep getting corrupted. Trying another disk will tell you for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randad Posted May 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 I hope this is a fix Robin. This problem has cost dozens of hours of lost time for them and me. Is there a retrospect update coming soon for the Mac? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 http://www.emcinsignia.com/products/smb/retrospectxformac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randad Posted May 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 Oops. I knew that!! FYI: I stopped it again, ran a different script and restarted my original script...it went right back to work like it should. I'm going to let this one cook for a while. I've got a 310gb data group to backup! Thanks for you help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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