derek2008 Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 Hi forum folks. How long does it take other people to stop their Retrospect Backup Engine? (Retrospect 8.1) I hit my "Stop Retrospect Engine" button in the System Preferences, and correctly enter the admin password, and the "Stop Retrospect Engine" button is still displayed. 5 minutes later, the engine finally stops, and "Start Retrospect Engine" is displayed. According to the Console logs, the process ended being killed off after 5 minutes (600 seconds)... 11/05/10 8:12:48 AM [0x0-0xe20e20].com.apple.systempreferences[62823] 2010-05-11 08:12:48.911 Retrospect[62879:913] Retro Prefs Pane Helper: stop_server 11/05/10 8:12:48 AM [0x0-0xe20e20].com.apple.systempreferences[62823] launchctl: Error unloading: com.retrospect.RetroEngine 11/05/10 8:19:25 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.retrospect.RetroEngine[40190]) Exit timeout elapsed (600 seconds). Killing. 11/05/10 8:19:25 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.retrospect.RetroEngine[40190]) Exited: Killed Running Retrospect 8.1 (Build 626) on Intel Mac Pro, Mac OS X 10.5.8, 2GB RAM. Retrospect is all this box runs... Is this 5 minutes shutdown the usual behavior? Cheers, D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 Is this 5 minutes shutdown the usual behavior? Depending on what the Engine is doing when you ask it to stop, yes. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek2008 Posted May 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 Even if it's doing aparently "nothing". (And no backups scheduled for 8 hours)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 From my experience -- yes. I've seen it take up to 10 minutes (but never *more than* 10 minutes) to stop the engine from the System Preference. Even when things appear to be idle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMRMacBackup Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 My system can take up to 15 - 20 minutes, it's very annoying. I have also had the occasional hung process that cannot be cleared, once it crashed the server and another time it required a full restart of the server to release the process. The process itself indicates it was stopped (at least it is not listed in Activity Monitor) but the Retrospect System Preference indicates the engine is active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniels Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 My system takes under a minute to stop the engine through System Preferences. I must be one of the lucky ones and hopefully they fixed this in 8.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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