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So, I've got 5.0 installed on my G4 running 10.1.3, and I'm trying to back up machines that are running 9.x and are mounted as AFP volumes on my desktop. Retrospect starts scanning the volume, gets part of the way through, and then puts up a dialog reporting that a -43 (file/folder not found) error has occurred. The scanning of that volume stops, and it continues to the next one.

 

 

 

I have no problems with the local X volumes, only the AFP-mounted ones from my 9 machines. Has anyone else seen this? The manual indicates that this should work as it always has.

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You need to set your backups up as described in the Readme:

 

 

 

Backing Up To or From Mounted AppleShare Volumes: There are two ways to back up to or from AppleShare File Server (AFP) volumes under OS X:

 

 

 

* Log into the OS as root.

 

* Configure Retrospect to mount the AFP volume on the desktop.

 

 

 

 

 

For information on how to log in as root under OS X, please read Apple Computer's KnowledgeBase article #106290, Mac OS X: About the root User and How to Enable It.

 

 

 

To have Retrospect automatically mount an AFP volume on your desktop:

 

 

 

* Mount the AFP volume on your desktop using your login

 

* In Retrospect go to Configure>Volumes and highlight the mounted volume

 

* From the Volumes menu choose Configure (Command-J)

 

* Provide Retrospect with the password to connect to the AFP volume

 

* Unmount the AFP volume in Finder

 

* Include the AFP volume in your backup script.

 

 

 

 

 

When it needs to access the volume, Retrospect will mount the AFP volume on the desktop, access it, and then unmount it when done.

 

 

 

Note: When Retrospect has mounted the volume, you will not be able to see the volume's contents from the Finder.

 

 

 

If you back up a mounted AFP volume using either method listed above, privileges are not preserved and can not be restored. The only way to back up and restore privileges from a volume over a network is to back up the computer using Retrospect Client Software.

 

 

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Well, at the time it was the release before 5.0.205. Since then, I've purchased clients for all my OS 9 machines, and those work. I have no idea whether the AppleShare method works on 5.0.205 or not at this point. I may try it sometime when I get a chance -- although if I find that it now works, I'm going to be upset, having spent $90 on client software that I didn't really need.

 

 

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