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Using Retrospect Workgroup 5.0.238 (on a Mac running OS X Server 10.2.4) and Retrospect Client 5.0.540 with Mac OS 10.2.4 running on Dual 1.25Ghz G4 Power Mac computers connected by a local ethernet network. Recently, one of the client Macs had to be restored from backup. I ran into problems trying to accomplish the restoration. I followed the Dantz instructions for a complete restore: erase disk, reinstall OS, update to version running as of last backup, install client software, restore over network. The restore seemed to go fine from the server end, until with about 150 MB of 2.2 GB, I got the following error.

 

Can't write file ".DS_Store", error -34 (volume full), path: "Macintosh HD/Library/Frameworks/StuffIt.framework/.DS_Store".

 

It's a 120 GB hard drive so I doubt it was full. To complete the restore I finally had to use Restore to an external Firewire drive and then Duplicate back to the target Mac's internal drive. However, I haven't been able to get the client installed since -- but that's a previous, unresolved post -- the installer fails to run and complains about permissions, even from the root account.

 

When this restore problem happened, I ordered the 5.1 update (5.1.167 app and 5.1.109 client) and installed it on all the computers. Then I set up a carefully controlled test on an unused workstation. The same thing happened (-34 error). Why am I getting this bogus error and how can I work around it? Why does it restore without error to the subvolume on a local, external Firewire drive?

 

Steve

 

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After fighting problems when using Retrospect 5.0 and 5.1 to restore networked OS X clients I have finally found a "magic bullet" to my problems. On the negative side, all my previous backups of entire OS X systems were unusable -- they produced damaged disk images upon restoration. On the positive side, I found that by using the free utility CockTail, just before each backup, a "clean" system is guaranteed -- this produced good disk images upon restoration.

 

Here is the particular Cocktail "recipe" I use before backup:

- Log In as administrator.

- Open the Cocktail utility.

- Click the Pilot icon, click the Options tab, then enable the Restart Automatically checkbox.

- Click the Tasks tab, enable all the checkboxes, then click Run.

- Wait for the operation to complete and the computer to restart.

- Log In as administrator.

- Open the Cocktail utility.

- Click the System icon, then click Prebind.

- Wait for the operation to complete.

- Close the Cocktail application.

- Log Out as administrator.

- Do not use the computer during the backup process. This will leave it in an ideal state for performing a network backup.

 

Information about this utility may be found at:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/cocktail.html

 

Steve

 

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