watsoncrick Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Hi, Maybe my search terms weren't the best, but I can't find info on this combination. Our dept. has long run Retrospect 6.1 on a PPC G4 (now OS 10.4) to back up multiple network clients - under the standard "Users Folders and Prefs (OS X)" selection. We're replacing a PPC with a new iMac Intel Core 2 Duo running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 with Rosetta. Will the standard 6.2.234 client run successfully under Snow Leopard on our new machine for backing up "Users Folders and Prefs"? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Our dept. has long run [color:red]Retrospect 6.1[/color] on a PPC G4 (now OS 10.4) to back up multiple network clients - under the standard "Users Folders and Prefs (OS X)" selection. We're replacing a PPC with a new iMac Intel Core 2 Duo running [color:red]Snow Leopard 10.6.2[/color] with Rosetta. Will the standard 6.2.234 client run successfully under Snow Leopard on our new machine for backing up "Users Folders and Prefs"? From the Snow Leopard Compatibility Statement: Unsupported Configurations The following Retrospect configurations are [color:red]unsupported[/color] with Snow Leopard, and they will remain [color:red]unsupported[/color] in the future. EMC [color:red]Retrospect 6.1[/color] and earlier for Mac EMC Retrospect 7.5 and earlier for Windows Not just the machine on which Retrospect 6.1 runs, but any clients that talk to Retrospect 6.1. Unsupported. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watsoncrick Posted December 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 (edited) That is too bad. I was hoping that the client would be happy under Rosetta and that User Files backup was so innocuous that it would avoid all the problems posted about backing up compressed 10.6 system files. Perhaps Time Machine is the only option. Thanks for the info. Edited December 15, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 Perhaps Time Machine is the only option. Or upgrade to Retrospect 8. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fivearrows Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Unfortunately, Retrospect 8 requires 10.5. My laptop is at 10.6, but my backup server is running 10.4. The server OS is stable as a rock, and I don't have any real reason to invest in an upgrade. Especially since upgrading would require upgrading other software and make the total price unrealistic. Retrospect has been great for years, but I'm going to have to rely on Time Machine for my laptop, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xz4gb8 Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 (edited) The question was, "Will it work?" The answer, in my experience, is "Yes." "Unsupported" is not the same as "does not work." I routinely backup /User/xxx on 10.6 using Retrospect on a 10.4 machine. Every failure I have experienced was no different from backing up 10.4 or 10.5 /User/xxx. -- That is, save set volumes locked or loss of client configuration requiring forgetting and re-adding client and re-adding subvolumes to script. Works on both MacBook Pro and Intel Mini. http://forums.dantz.com/skins/GL2007/icons/grin.gif And, yes, I have restored files. Edited January 18, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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