kingjesse2 Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 I am actually having two different errors popping up for me, but they both have to do with the communication between the server and the client. I am running the most recent update of Retrospect. My first, and largest problem is every now and then Retrospect will refuse to connect to a client. All of the clients are laptops that our employees take home each evening (we're talking like 10 people here). So one day the server will see the client, but then the next day it will refuse to. I have tried going in and browsing the source, but it says the source is unavailable. The only ways I can get it to communicate properly is to a) have them restart their computer while connected to our LAN or reinstall the client software. I am not sure of the issue, and this is kind of a pain to do every day. I have tried disabling the firewalls on both the client and the server to no avail. Any ideas would be welcomed! Secondly, a new problem just cropped up today. Once I did the above steps to allow the clients to connect to the server, all of the Proactive backups for a certain client failed. No idea why, and it is only on one single client. Pictured below is the log of the backup. Any help on either of these problems would be awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 (edited) Scanning incomplete usually means that Retrospect had trouble reading a specific item on the disk. Does the scan always stop at the same point? Run Disk Utility and check the disk for problems. Also run a permissions check. When the other clients are not found by Retrospect what error is reported when the script runs? Edited July 1, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impala Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 (edited) instead of rebooting the client, try stopping and starting the retrospect engine from the System Preferences. I don't mean rebooting the MacOS, just the retrospect engine. Then wait 5 or 10 minutes and see if the client is restored. see http://forums.dantz.com/showpost.php?post/121857/ Edited July 1, 2009 by Guest add link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjesse2 Posted July 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 As for the one client that was erroring, that person will be out of the office with their laptop for a week or so, so I'll have to get back. But for the engine not finding the clients, when the scripts try to run, they simply say that the client cannot be located. And then when I go to the client list and try to browse them, it says "source unavailable" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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