BroadcastCenter Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 Hello, I am Francesco Frittelli and work as technician for Broadcast Center in Italy. I had bought an EMC Retrospect for Mac version 8.1. But the customer need to make backup of a server by a LAN with the MAC PRO where I had installed the EMC software. The 8.1 had not this function... when it is available? Best regards Francesco Frittelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 You must use a single server edition or multi server edition of Retrospect in order to backup a server. Pro does not support servers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadcastCenter Posted May 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 But what is the difference if I backup an harddrive connected to the Mac Pro and a remote Hard Disk? It maybe similar? With the server edition I can make backup of hard drive connect by USB or firewire to the MAC PRO? If yes, How can I upgrade or change the version of the software? Thank you for the rapid answer. Best regards Francesco Frittelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 Retrospect does not know what type of Macintosh you have. Retrospect knows what operating system you are running. Server editions allow for the backup of a server operating system. You may need to contact customer service for an upgrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 But what is the difference if I backup an harddrive connected to the Mac Pro and a remote Hard Disk? It maybe similar?With the server edition I can make backup of hard drive connect by USB or firewire to the MAC PRO? Francesco, It's a licensing issue. This is how EMC decided to license the software, with different capabilities being sold with different license codes. See the product information: New! EMC® Retrospect® for Mac 8 Retrospect 8 Single Server Unlimited Clients is designed for small and midsize businesses, branch offices, and departments in large organizations protecting one server. Retrospect Single Server runs on a Mac OS X server and provides licenses to protect an unlimited number of networked Mac, Windows, and Linux desktops and notebooks. A server client license can be purchased to protect an additional networked Mac, Windows, or Linux server. Annual Support and Maintenance is included with this product. Retrospect 8 Single Server 20 Clients is designed for small and midsize businesses, branch offices, and departments in large organizations protecting one server. Retrospect Single Server runs on a Mac OS X server and provides licenses to protect up to 20 networked Mac, Windows, and Linux desktops and notebooks. A server client license can be purchased to protect an additional networked Mac, Windows, or Linux server. The licensing model is that the computer on which Retrospect runs is considered a "server", as are any Retrospect clients running Mac OS X Server. You need to get an appropriate license if you want to back up clients running Mac OS X Server. It sounds like, for Retrospect licensing purposes, that you have two "servers" - the computer running Retrospect and the Mac OS X Server on the LAN. You would seem to need either the "Single Server" edition with an additional "Server Client" license, or the "Multi-Server" edition. As Robin Mayoff notes, contact EMC Customer Service for an upgrade. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadcastCenter Posted May 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2010 Good moorning Vietnam!!! :-) Thank you for the answers, but I do not must make backup of server as system, but only the backup of the datas in the drives... I am not interested to make a backup of server's OS. It is the samethings??? Thank you for your help... :-) Best regards Francesco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniels Posted May 18, 2010 Report Share Posted May 18, 2010 From what I can tell is that as long as the OS of the client is a server version of the OS and you have more than one Server OSes to back up then you need to go with the versions Russ suggested. Just for example we use Retrospect 7.6 Multiserver because we need to backup up multiple Windows 2000 Servers. Our Retrospect 8.1 backup only backups one server client so we can use the Single Server version of 8.1 More than one Server OS = Russ's suggestions Zero to one Server OSes = Single Server Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 18, 2010 Report Share Posted May 18, 2010 Because that data is physically attached to an OS X Server you must user a server edition. Move the data to a workstation OS Mac to use the professional edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadcastCenter Posted May 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2010 Hello guys, thank you for yours remarks...I hope I follow the my starter idea... do like as tell Mayoff... thank you very much. Bets regards Francesco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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