I just started working for a company that uses Retrospect V. 6.1.126 on a G4 Mac Desktop running OS 10.4.9 and has multiple clients. I have never used Retrospect myself but I'm trying to find a solution to a problem with their Retro.

I'm in the graphics department which consists of three Macs. Is running off one, the G4 I mentioned before.

It has 1.5 GB of SDRAM and is a Dual 450mhz processor. The Retro on that G4 Mac backs up all the PC's in the company (12 PC's running Windows XP) plus the Macs in the graphics department but since January 2007, the Macs aren't being backed up but the PC's are backed up just fine. Prior to January, the Macs were able to be backed up. The Macs are running client 6.1.130. One of the other Macs is a G5 Desktop, 2 GB SDRAM, Dual 2ghz processor. The one I'm on is a 2ghz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB SDRAM iMac.

All the Macs are running Tiger. The client Macs are on the same subnet as the Retro. Installed Mac and they are networked through a centralized data port. What's happening is that, while trying to back up a client/computer, Retro. Only reaches the point where it begins to back up files but then hangs up. The Log states 'Trouble reading files, error 519 (network communication failed)'. Supposedly, Retro.

Has worked fine the entire time they've been using it up until about January 2007. It only backed up 628 files out of something like 42,000 and stopped at #628. I downloaded the newest Driver yesterday and installed it- 6.1.10.

It had 6.1.9. Restarted the computer. The driver update didn't help. The problem already existed with RDU 6.1.9.102. I only installed RDU 6.1.10.100 yesterday to try to fix the issue of Retro. Not completing the back up process.

Any suggestions? I'd reallly appreciate it. Imac intel Mac OS X (10.4.9) Imac intel Mac OS X (10.4.9).

Well the first thing is suggest is to check that the backup clients that are installed on the computers are up to date. The second thing i suggest is to check that in the prefrences of the retrospect server in networking is set to not cancel the backup if network speed falls below '(whatever speed set)' make sure that it is not set to use that.

I do have a set up in my business just like yours and no problem. One more thing if you could post the retrospect log file i could help you more.

Make sure it is the one that shows all the actions that the retrospect server is doing. Happy sailing!

I use everything you are dealing with except 10.4.9. I stayed in 10.4.8 on both Server and Clients till all issues where resolved. As far as error 519 (network communication failed), this is 9 out of 10 time a client issue and has nothing to do with the Retrospect Server unit. Please go back to your post in the EMC Forums I posted more info there since thats realy where it belongs.

(even thought by you coming here made me go there, lol) BTW all His Version info client and server are up to date. The hang might be an RDU issue so you might want to go back one. Apple Footer.

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Retrospect Desktop 6.1, from EMC Insignia, is one of four editions of the software available for Macs. The Workgroup and Server editions add features to handle large networks and computers running OS X Server; the Express edition, bundled free with numerous hard drives and optical drives, omits network backups and tape drive support. Retrospect’s design caters to the needs of network administrators, who must grapple with backing up numerous computers (both Mac and Windows). For the average home or small business user, though, Retrospect can be intimidating. In an attempt to bypass most of its complexity, Retrospect offers a feature called the EasyScript Wizard, which builds a basic backup system by walking you through a series of questions. You can customize the plan it creates relatively easily. But if you want to color outside the lines even further, you must dig into the 256-page manual; the learning curve is steep.

Retrospect Desktop can perform immediate, unscheduled backup, duplication, and restore actions. For automated use, you must create a script. A script is simply a collection of settings—backup type, source, destination, schedule, and other options—all shown in a single window.

Script types include Backup (which creates archives, in a proprietary file format, incrementally adding new files on each run without deleting old ones); Duplicate (for making exact, bootable duplicates); Archive (to copy files and optionally delete the originals), and Restore (for the rare task of automated restorations). Retrospect Desktop’s options for selecting or excluding files, scheduling backups, and fiddling with every conceivable detail of a backup’s execution are outstandingly versatile—and correspondingly confusing. Although Retrospect Desktop works perfectly well for backing up a single machine, it can also function to back up two additional computers (Mac or Windows) on your network, via an included Retrospect Client program. (Additional licenses for this application are available.) Using an external hard drive, Retrospect Desktop can even create a bootable duplicate of your disk over a network connection, a rare feat among backup programs.

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All backups and restorations are managed centrally on the computer running Retrospect Desktop. Retrospect Desktop has unparalleled capabilities when it comes to working with optical media. Not only can it record to CDs and DVDs directly, it can record incrementally—adding to a disc on successive backup runs until it fills. No other Mac backup application can do this. On the other hand, Retrospect Desktop has historically been slow to add support for new devices as they appear in the market; if you buy the latest optical wonder, you may have to wait months before an update gives Retrospect the capability to write to it. Thanks in large part to its use of snapshots—lists of all the files in the source as they appeared at each time a backup runs, whether copied on that run or not—Retrospect Desktop has an extremely powerful Restore feature. You can restore an entire disk (or selected files) from any date to the original location or to an alternate location; you can also search a single backup set or across multiple backup sets for a particular file.

Unfortunately, the interface for restoring files is somewhat confusing. You must choose a destination before even searching for files to restore, and the program does a poor job of guiding you through some of the steps. Although Retrospect Desktop was reasonably stable in my tests, I did find that it sometimes taxes the computer’s processor while it runs, in some cases making it difficult to use the computer for other tasks at the same time. For this reason, scheduling backups to run overnight or when your computer(s) are otherwise unused is best. Macworld’s buying advice If measured purely in terms of the number and depth of features, no other Mac backup program can hold a candle to Retrospect 6.1.

If you want to back up a small network, it’s the best choice, by far. As nice as the bells and whistles are, though, the application is wanting when it comes to ease of use and performance—at least for individual users. Joe Kissell is senior editor of TidBITS and author of Real World Mac Maintenance and Backups (Peachpit, 2007).