Arroz Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Hello! I had to replace an ethernet card, and so turned my Mac off and on a few times. Now, all the Retrospect server settings are lost, I even had to re-insert the serial number. Am I using a pre-alpha release or something!? Yours Miguel Arroz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Am I using a pre-alpha release or something!? Not possible to answer because you haven't provided any version numbers, and it's unclear what you did to cause this situation. Did you shut the machine down cleanly? Or did you shut it down without cleanly shutting down the Retrospect engine? You can always restore your previous settings from a backup. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 If you "turned your Mac off" while it was running, you likely corrupted the "config80.dat" file if you didn't stop the engine first. As such, Russ is correct -- your only option is to restore the config80.dat file from backup (or start with a clean config file...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arroz Posted November 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Hi! The alpha thing was rhetorical, I'm using the latest version. It was just a nice way to ask "wtf". I ended up recreating everything from scratch. One of the shut-downs was not clean, that might have triggered the problem. But it's odd to have a backup software where you have to backup the configuration just to make sure... Daemons are supposed to be built keeping in mind that the machine may go down suddenly (power fail, crash, etc) so they should have proper recovering mechanisms. I hope my experience with this version of Retrospect improves in the next few days, or else I'll have to setup some crazy encrypted DMG + TimeMachine scheme, as I can't stand backup software that cannot be trusted. Yours Miguel Arroz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 From my general observations over the many months, if you only have one hard shutdown -- it's OK (that's why the program writes a config80.bak file occasionally -- though not nearly as frequently as I think it should...) Two major shutdowns before that .bak file is updated, though, and it seems to reset things to zero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Retrospect 8 is in its infancy, and isn't very mature. This is all new code. Test thoroughly before deploying into production because you are an early adopter. It is improving with each bugfix release. Eventually there may even be a manual. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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