carverdigital Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 I'm using Retrospect 5.0.238 on a Mac with OS 10.2.6 in a stand alone (non-networked) environment. My date and time are set via an internet clock. I've been trying to rebuild a catalog for a DVD back-up set. Starting a clean rebuild, disk one is fine, disk two is file and then on disk three, the catalog just keeps going... without changing the disk it ran for 3 days and supposedly recataloged 150GB of data (wow, now that's compression!), before I aborted. I tried skipp (missing) disk 3 and nowDVD #4 is still cataloging at 204 Gb. I'm baffled. Any suggestions are greatly welcomed. Thanks in advance. Douglas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carverdigital Posted July 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 This is really a problem. If anyone can help, that would be great. the update to the below explanation is that I'm still on DVD #4 and the recatalog is now at 412 Gb. I guess it will continue forever... Quote: carverdigital said: I'm using Retrospect 5.0.238 on a Mac with OS 10.2.6 in a stand alone (non-networked) environment. My date and time are set via an internet clock. I've been trying to rebuild a catalog for a DVD back-up set. Starting a clean rebuild, disk one is fine, disk two is file and then on disk three, the catalog just keeps going... without changing the disk it ran for 3 days and supposedly recataloged 150GB of data (wow, now that's compression!), before I aborted. I tried skipp (missing) disk 3 and nowDVD #4 is still cataloging at 204 Gb. I'm baffled. Any suggestions are greatly welcomed. Thanks in advance. Douglas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 What is the make/model of the DVD drive? The extremely slow performance indicates the drive is having difficulty reading the data and may be feeding misinformation to the catalog as a result. If it even finishes at this point, you may not have viable, restorable data on the last two disks. Try opening your Operations Log (Cmd-L) while the recatalog is running to look for errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carverdigital Posted July 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 The drive is the Apple factory internal Pioneer Cd-RW-DVD-R-104. I haven't had a single (known) problem with it otherwise. Yep, the operations log was an endless list of error messages: Trouble reading: “4-Disc, IMAGES” (3870), error 206 (drive reported a failure: dirty heads, bad media, etc.). Backup set format inconsistency (4 at 470530048) Can you clarify or suggest? Is the back-up set useless? Do I need to clean my drive? As I said, all other uses (more CD than DVD) reading and writing are fine. Any way to minimize the likelihood of this ocurring again? Thanks again. Quote: AmyJ said: What is the make/model of the DVD drive? The extremely slow performance indicates the drive is having difficulty reading the data and may be feeding misinformation to the catalog as a result. If it even finishes at this point, you may not have viable, restorable data on the last two disks. Try opening your Operations Log (Cmd-L) while the recatalog is running to look for errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 Were you using CD-R or CD-RW media for the backups? What brand of media? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carverdigital Posted July 31, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2003 Quote: AmyJ said: Were you using CD-R or CD-RW media for the backups? What brand of media? DVD-R single speed by CD Technology.com As it turns out i believe I have found the source of the problem. I use Cumulus to organize my images and there's a deep setting that updates the metadata to the original asset every time the program accesses the file even if the file is never opened or changed. This in turn causes the modification date to change and Retrospect then does what it should - back -up the file again. I've fixed the toggle setting in cumulus and should be okay now. Thanks for your time and attention. Do you in fact know of prefered media Cd & DVD for long term archiving? your friend and mine, douglas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.