Pokeseven Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 some urgent help needed before the panic kicks in. Retrospect 8 with updates installed on a 10.6.3 intel xserve with 9GB ram. The machine crashed so i had to do a force reboot. logged back into the machine - started up retrospect and its reverted its self to ask me for a licence key my scripts are all missing i have no media sets it looks like i'll have to set up from scratch... please suggest something that doesn't mean i have to start from scratch again.... how could this possibly happen!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 the config80.dat file was corrupted. You can restore this file from a prior backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokeseven Posted April 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 how do i restore this file.... ive dumped it in Retrospect> application support but the console is still not showing any settings.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 (edited) If you have a copy of "config80.dat" from a backup... 1) Stop the engine. 2) Remove the existing config80.dat *and* config80.bak files 3) Put your restored "config80.dat" file in place 4) Restart the engine. Then you'll be back to where you were at the time you backed up the config80.dat file. If you don't have a handy backup (like a Finder copy backup), but backed up the file to a media set, then you'll have to put in your license again, "locate" your media set and then restore the file from backup. Then do the above. Edited April 22, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokeseven Posted April 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 I've been using Retrospect 8 for 2 weeks; i was in the process of adding all my clients and creating media sets (laptops/Desktops/Servers/Filesharing) - i never did backup the config80.dat file... bad move it looks like i'm going to have to start from scratch - i have my media set disks and tapes; if i recreate the scripts and sources can i reuse the current media sets without having to do a full recycle backup... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 i recreate the scripts and sources can i reuse the current media sets... Yes. Just Locate your Media Set's Catalog and confirm that the Members are still seen; the next backup should proceed normally. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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