dickie Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 1) Did running a Retrospect 6 duplicate cause my source Snow Leopard disk system files to be uncompressed? I did a duplicate of my Snow Leopard system disk to an external Firewire drive. It got thousands of errors on the compare and I got several Mac OS X messages saying that a system font had been restored. Did Retrospect 6 do anything to my source Snow Leopard disk? Were the font messages referring to the target Firewire disk system files? Know any way to tell? Any way to recover? 2) Can I run a Retrospect 6 client on Snow Leopard connected to a Retrospect 6 server running on Leopard (10.5)? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 10, 2010 Report Share Posted August 10, 2010 Running Retrospect 6 on Snow Leopard is not supported and that is the cause of the problems you see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickie Posted August 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2010 Right, Retrospect 6 is not supported on Snow Leopard which explains why the duplicate of my Snow Leopard disk failed. But did running that duplicate harm the source Snow Leopard system disk? Clearly the target disk was unusable. And can I safely run the Retrospect 6 client on Snow Leopard even though the backups of system files will apparently be kept uncompressed? I am only interested in incremental backups of my user data on the Snow Leopard system. The Retrospect 6 server in this case is running on a Leopard (10.5) system. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted August 11, 2010 Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 did running that duplicate harm the source Snow Leopard system disk? Retrospect "Classic" opens Source volumes Read-Only. It won't modify a Source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil07 Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 does any one tries to back up a pc windows from a retrospect 6.1 mac server. is this gonna perform the back up as the windows will server as a additional client, or do i need to purchase retrospect windows to get it work. please advise experts thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 does any one tries to back up a pc windows from a retrospect 6.1 mac server. is this gonna perform the back up as the windows will server as a additional client, or do i need to purchase retrospect windows to get it work. please advise experts thanks. Please do not threadjack, as your question is unrelated to the original poster's question(s). Retrospect 6.x will backup Windows files, but not the registry etc. Retrospect 8.2 (Mac) or Retrospect 7.7 (Windows) is what you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil07 Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 thanks! sorry for the wrong post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wp1 Posted November 27, 2010 Report Share Posted November 27, 2010 > But did running that duplicate harm the source Snow Leopard system disk? Yes, it does. The statement that Retrospect 6 does not modify the source disk is inaccurate. Backing up (and I suppose duplicating) under Snow Leopard with Retrospect 6 results in two nasty problems: 1. It causes all HFS compressed files to be uncompressed as it reads them. 2. It sets the "last modified" date of all HFS compressed files to the time that file was touched by Retrospect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickie Posted December 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2010 Thanks for the clarification. Can the Snow Leopard system files be re-compressed? Any real problem leaving them uncompressed other than using more disk space? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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