increment Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 We're thinking of setting up 2 more Retro servers here. What we were thinking was to setup 2 Mac Retro 5 servers at offsight offices and backup clients there to hard drive. Then on the weekends copy the backup file to our Retro 6 windows server here for longer term storage. Would the Retro 6 server be able to read the Retro 5 Mac backup file and catalog? We would rather not use Retro for the actual copy/move from offsight to the local server. I was thinking something more along the lines of rsync or maybe sftp. Is this possible, or does anyone have any other ideas for a workaround? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 Macintosh Retrospect can not read data copied with the Windows product, and the Windows product can't read a Mac backup. This item from the Knowlegebase should be helpful: TITLE: I'm currently migrating to a Windows environment. Will I be able to access my Mac backups with the Windows version of Retrospect? Article ID: 27001 Discussion Retrospect cannot read tapes across our two platform (Mac/PC) products at this time. The main reason is the format we use for the Macintosh was created for the Macintosh file system (HFS). It was very precisely engineered to work well with the Macintosh file system and architecture. The new format we use for the PC is more robust and capable of dealing with any/all file system formats (HFS, FAT, FAT32, NTFS, UFS, etc) on any platforms/OS's. Unix, Linux, Win9x, WinNT, Mac OS, Mac OSX, etc. It was designed to be quite extensible and allow us to easily add support for future file systems and platforms. As a final note: Being backwards compatible is a MUST in backup software and thus we must keep our Macintosh format the same. You can imagine the horror of needing to retrieve files from a 6 year old tape to find out that the product you used to do the backup no longer works with your tape because it is too old. Not a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
increment Posted March 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 AAARGGG! I search the knowledge base for that. Maybe I just don't know what to search for. That answers my question, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 The KB doesn't always make searching easy. It even took me a few minutes to find it in the KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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