Invader J Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Hi everyone, I'm having a heck of a time with Retrospect 5.1 running on Jaguar. Here's my setup: I've got one Mac running OS X Server 10.2.8 and Retrospect Server 5.1. My backup media is two FireWire hard drives. This computer connects to three other Macs running Server 10.2.8, and two Dell servers running Windows 2000 Server. All I need from all of these machines is the data - no OS needed, just data from folders. What I would like to have happen: every day at the times set in my scripts, Retrospect backs up all the data I've specified onto the FireWire drives. Each day it overwrites the previous day's backup. It does this regardless of any modification dates, file sizes, etc. Originally, I left the script settings at their default values (verification on, matching on). The problem that came up: it would not back up my FileMaker databases (hosted on an X Server 10.2.8 Mac) every day, since I guess the sizes/modification dates were the same (seems like FM Server doesn't always change mod dates even thought the data is changed). This is obviously a huge problem! In addition, the same problem happened on one of the Win2K Servers - it would not back up our SQL databases (Blackbaud) since the mod dates weren't changed daily, even though the data inside was. Now, I tried turning off matching, but then my FireWire drives get packed way too quickly - I want to rotate them out weekly. I've played with script options and all but just can't seem to get it to do what I want, and it's getting quite frustrating. Again, all I want to do is have Retrospect backup data every day and overwrite the previous day's data, and do this regardless of modification dates or data size. Meaning, 10 gigs of data that I need to backup will always occupy 10 gigs on my backup drive, since every day it gets overwritten. I just can't seem to figure out how to do this! If anyone could help me out I'd really appreciate it. Thanks very much in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 A recycle backup each day would probably be required. The database files may not get updated date information until they are closed. Databases often cache data, and a proper backup is not always possible until the file is closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Filemaker Server has a built-in utility to backup the databases. Try having Filemaker do a nightly backup and then have Retrospect backup the copies made by Filemaker. This was true for Filemaker Server running under the Classic OS, and I don't imagine it has chagned for the X version of Filemaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted March 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Mayoff and AmyJ - Thanks for the info. I was already backing up the FM DBs locally, and having Retro grab a copy of those instead is a great idea - embarassed that I didn't think of it! I'll also give the daily reycle backup a shot; looking at what exactly the recycle backup function does, sounds like that might be the ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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