Retrospect Client 5.0.536 on Xserve

[sbudach]

As I am still searching for a reasonable way to do our Mac OS X Server backups (on our Xserve) I tried the new Retrospect Client with our Retrospect 5 Workgroupbackup installed on some Msc OS 9 box.

 

 

 

While the process of backing up is smooth an quite fast, it seems that the client isn´t able to restore the permissions correctly. After all the user and group are set to admin and that is absolutely not useful.

 

 

 

Is this a feature, or did I do something wrong?

 

 

 

Stephan

[CallMeDave]

In reply to:

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Is this a feature, or did I do something wrong?

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Both.

 

 

 

Retrospect handles permissions two different ways, depending on the Type of Restore operation you perform.

 

 

 

If you perform the basic "Files and Folders" Restore (where the files from the Backup Set are Restored to a folder on the Client machine), the restored files will have the permissions of either the current logged in user (of the Client) or of root if the Client has no logged in user.

 

 

 

If you perform "Restore Entire" operations (Replace Entire or Replace Corrosponding) the restored files will maintain the permissions they had when they were backed up.

 

 

 

Note that although Retrospect uses the term "Replace Entire Disk" in describing these operations, it is actually a Replace Entire _Volume_ operation that can be performed on a folder that has been defined as a volume.

 

 

 

Dave

[sbudach]

Right, thanks, I will try that tomorrow again.

 

 

 

Thanks for the input.

 

 

 

Stephan