scsctech Posted August 11, 2010 Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 Upgraded to 8.2 today....now the console takes forever to load up the server information, then after about 10 minutes it hangs...have to force quit it. This happens with both the console installs on my 10.6.4 iMac and on the 10.5.8 xserve that the engine is installed on. w t f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alabay Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Well, I have the same problem here. Like a joke. The server started at 7:46. It's now 8:07, I don't know what's going on. I don't see any activities, I cannot stop the engine, nothing ... Just telling "12.08.10 07:47:06 Retrospect[1867] Warning - unable to find template matching predicate activityType CONTAINS[cd] "Proaktiv"" Well ... killing joke ... I don't like this programm, and I don't recommend it. I'm just stuck to it. Bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 If you want to see if activities are actually running on the Engine machine, you can go to: /Library/Application Support/Retrospect/RtrExec.dir There will be an "Exec-X" folder for each running activity. I find that if I have 5 concurrent activities running, it can take my console a while to populate after I load it as it takes a while for the console process to sneak another activity in when all the RAM on the engine machine is in use by the running activities. And, then if I have the console open and 5 proactive activities fire up, the console will (briefly) SPOD. I would agree that (maybe?) there should be some way to set the console activity to be a higher priority. How many proactive scripts do you have running (whether or not they are actively backing up?) How much RAM on your engine machine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alabay Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 I have not more than three proactive scripts. Running ... only one can run at once. I have 6 GB on a Mac Pro 2x2,66. Should I forget myself and yell "crap"? :-((( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Why can only one run at once? Do all three write to the same media set? Or do you have the number of "Activity Threads" that can run set lower than the default "8" threads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsctech Posted August 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 (edited) Yeah, I am not as worried about the console taking forever to populate as I am it hanging and having to force-quit it. This is a NEW symptom for 8.2 that I didn't have in 8.1.626. I usually have 3 concurrent proactive backups running with a server backup script that runs at night on the 4th thread. On certain days I also have a backup copy running to tape. BTW I am running a Quad 2.8 Xeon with 10gb RAM Edited August 12, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alabay Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 As far as I know a normal "Retrospect" only runs one thread at once. Multiple is for a bigger edition, I guess Server or so. Isn't it so? I never saw more than one thread running. If a second should start at the same time, this one waits for the first one to finish. I cannot understand why it is NOT possible to start RS and – blob – everything is on my screen, the console, the activities. Independent from any missing share or client or whatever RS waits for. I'm sitting here in front of a Mac Pro and feel as if I am watching a 68k machine ... unbelievable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsctech Posted August 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 I have Retrospect Unlimited Server, Unlimited Client and it will run 8 threads simultaneously as long as the scripts don't access the same source or media set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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