Verification Problem - "Unknown Status"

[jomeara421]

Setup:

 

Mac G4, 256 K Ram, OS 10.2.4

 

Retrospect Backup 5.0.238

Retrospect 5.0 Driver Update 3.4.103, creation date: Feb. 12, 2003

 

Backups to the G4's DVD drive: Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-104 (Driver: Pioneer DVD/CD-RW (5.01)).

 

 

I have run into two problems with Retrospect on this single G4.

 

After completing a backup, when Retro asks for a previous disk to complete verification, it often fails to reconize the disk, and gives the following message, after I put in the CD and the disk mounts:

 

"Unknown status"

 

My only choice is to ignore that disk, which is clearly problematic.

 

I have no other problems with this drive - I burn and play CDs without difficulty.

 

I have created four or five backups sets, and the problem occurs with each one.

 

As well, I get repeated "Catalog Out of Synch" errors. I assume these are related to the problem above.

 

I have considered reinstalling Retrospect, but thought I'd see if there were less drastic solutions.

 

I continue to use Retrospect on a machine with Mac OS 9 and don't get these problems at all, so these problems appear particular to OS X.

 

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

John

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jomeara421]

Okay, any takers on this one?

 

Thanks.

 

John

[jomeara421]

Help!

 

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

John

[jomeara421]

Just in case anyone is interested, I appear to have 'solved' this problem by by running the OS X utility that repairs Permissions. After that I made a new backup set and it works fine.

 

I don't know much about the inner workings of OS X but from what I have read, repairing permissions on a regular basis may be a good idea.

 

John