Can anyone suggest back-up software?

[Bob Harris]

In article <hjVUa.261$Cx4.96349@news20.bellglobal.com>,
"Rick Blythin" <mosguy@gosympatico.ca> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I have started my own I.T company earlier this year I plan to purchase a
> Powerbook to replace my current PC laptop. One of my services will be
> back-ups. I came across the following software:
> [url]https://www.intego.com/personalbackup/home.html[/url] which I think is probably
> very good for Mac.
>
> My problem is I need something that will run on Mac (Jaguar) but ideally
> support networking (although not critical), also to be able to read and see
> Windows boxes (FAT&NTFS format) as all my current clients run various
> windows versions.
>
> Does anyone know of software with these features?.
>
> Cheers,
> Rick

Retrospect from <dantz.com>

You can back up to almost any type of media (a disk file, a CD, a DVD, a
tape drive).

You can use a system as a backup server to backup client Macs or PCs via
a Retrospect network client.

Retrospect is well established backup software and very well respected.
It is also easy to use.

Bob Harris

[Rick Blythin]

"Bob Harris" <harris@zk3.dec.com> wrote in message
news:harris-C4C29B.19432927072003@juggl7.zk3.dec.com...

> In article <hjVUa.261$Cx4.96349@news20.bellglobal.com>,
> "Rick Blythin" <mosguy@gosympatico.ca> wrote:
>

> > Hey all,
> >
> > I have started my own I.T company earlier this year I plan to purchase a
> > Powerbook to replace my current PC laptop. One of my services will be
> > back-ups. I came across the following software:
> > [url]https://www.intego.com/personalbackup/home.html[/url] which I think is

probably

> > very good for Mac.
> >
> > My problem is I need something that will run on Mac (Jaguar) but ideally
> > support networking (although not critical), also to be able to read and

see

> > Windows boxes (FAT&NTFS format) as all my current clients run various
> > windows versions.
> >
> > Does anyone know of software with these features?.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rick

>
> Retrospect from <dantz.com>
>
> You can back up to almost any type of media (a disk file, a CD, a DVD, a
> tape drive).
>
> You can use a system as a backup server to backup client Macs or PCs via
> a Retrospect network client.
>
> Retrospect is well established backup software and very well respected.
> It is also easy to use.
>
> Bob Harris

Thanks for the info. I checked out the site looks like it's exactly what I'm
looking for.

Rick

[AES/newspost]

In article <harris-C4C29B.19432927072003@juggl7.zk3.dec.com>,
Bob Harris <harris@zk3.dec.com> wrote:

>
> Retrospect is well established backup software and very well respected.
> It is also easy to use.
>

Agree fully with first sentence. Second is more debatable -- "It is
also easy to use, AFTER a fairly steep initial learning curve" might be
more like it.

[david scholefield]

I've just got a copy of Retrospec express and a LaCie 120GB hard
drive and the damn software wont write to it - it's a mounted drive
shared across a network, sitting on a G4 tower. Mac OS X complains
with e -5000 error (no permission to access the drive). The
permissions on the drive are read and write by all! Tried just
about everything!

Any advice - or is it just a lost cause?

david

On 28/7/03 3:30 am, in article
[email]siegman-496EE3.19300627072003@news.stanford.edu[/email], "AES/newspost"
<siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <harris-C4C29B.19432927072003@juggl7.zk3.dec.com>,
> Bob Harris <harris@zk3.dec.com> wrote:
>

>>
>> Retrospect is well established backup software and very well respected.
>> It is also easy to use.
>>

>
> Agree fully with first sentence. Second is more debatable -- "It is
> also easy to use, AFTER a fairly steep initial learning curve" might be
> more like it.

[Gordon Tillman]

Hi David,

One more thing from Dantz's web site:

> Auto-mounting with Retrospect 5.0 for Macintosh
> Due to permission issues with Retrospect 5.0 and later under Mac OS X,
> Retrospect must auto-mount a network volume before the backup operation
> begins. To have Retrospect automatically mount an AppleShare volume on
> your Mac OS X desktop for a scripted backup:
>
> * Mount the AppleShare 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 AppleShare
> volume
> * Unmount the AppleShare volume in Finder
> * Include the AppleShare volume in your backup script
>
> When Retrospect needs to access the volume, Retrospect will mount the
> AppleShare volume on the desktop, access it, and then unmount it when
> the execution has completed.
>
> 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 AppleShare volume, privileges are not
> preserved and cannot 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.
>

--g

[Rod Smith]

In article <BB4B13BB.2DC6%david@psychotrap.com>,
david scholefield <david@psychotrap.com> wrote:

>
> I've just got a copy of Retrospec express and a LaCie 120GB hard
> drive and the damn software wont write to it - it's a mounted drive
> shared across a network, sitting on a G4 tower. Mac OS X complains
> with e -5000 error (no permission to access the drive). The
> permissions on the drive are read and write by all! Tried just
> about everything!
>
> Any advice - or is it just a lost cause?
>
> david

I don't see Retrospect Express as a current product on the Dantz site.

I once mistakenly bought a copy of Express a few years ago thinking I
could back up to a hard disk, but I hadn't read the fine print. It was
not made to do so -- at that time it took the full-blown Retrospect to
accomplish this.

--
Rod Smith
Florida Panhandle

[Zeph]

In article <hjVUa.261$Cx4.96349@news20.bellglobal.com>, Rick Blythin
<mosguy@gosympatico.ca> wrote:

> I have started my own I.T company earlier this year I plan to purchase a
> Powerbook to replace my current PC laptop. One of my services will be
> back-ups. I came across the following software:
> [url]https://www.intego.com/personalbackup/home.html[/url] which I think is probably
> very good for Mac.
>
> My problem is I need something that will run on Mac (Jaguar) but ideally
> support networking (although not critical), also to be able to read and see
> Windows boxes (FAT&NTFS format) as all my current clients run various
> windows versions.
>
> Does anyone know of software with these features?

Dantz Retrospect.