What happens on Restart or Crash

[moomin68]

Sorry if this is a dumb one, have searched forums but cannot find the answer.

 

Just started using Retrospect 8 for Mac.

 

If a script is running/active, and I restart my computer, what happens -- will it resume after restart, or do I have to do this manually?

 

What about a crash?

 

Thanks.

[rhwalker]

with the current state of Retrospect 8, it might corrupt the media set and/or catalog, and might require catalog rebuild / recreate.

 

Might also corrupt the config80.dat file, causing you to lose all of your scripts, sources, destinations, etc.

 

It all depends on what is happening at the time. It's especially bad if grooming is occurring.

 

The error recovery routines are not very robust right now.

 

It's not a dumb question at all.

 

Russ

[moomin68]

Thanks Russ, very helpful advice.

[rhwalker]

My advice would be to back up the config file occasionally.

 

As far as a graceful restart, if grooming is not going on (and you can't stop grooming once it is in progress), Retrospect engine will restart and check scripts, etc., and do what is necessary.

 

Again, right now, things are a bit fragile. But it is getting better, and a big bugfix release is expected later this quarter century.

 

Russ

[pjonesvcc]

In the specific scenario where you have an engine on one computer and a client on another, and you restart (or sleep) the client during a proactive backup (and the engine keeps trucking along normally), then the proactive script will get stuck. It will say that it will retry the client later, but you have to remove the entry for the interrupted backup attempt in the Activities section before the Proactive scripting will work properly again.