Restrospect

Cheryl, I KNOW he can boot into OS 9.2 because he always does so (never runs OS X at all.) Since I use Retrospect, even if only certain files are backed up, it still scans through all 130,000 files to figure out which ones to back up. Given he doesn't ever want to run OS X (he's 85 years old and is happy with OS 9), I want to figure out a way to delete the OS X operating...

My dad recently purchased an eMac with a 17" monitor to replace his OLD Mac Quadra. He wanted faster performance but still likes OS 9.2. We use Retrospect to back up his eMac and when we do a backup, Retrospect must scan almost 130,000 files before the backup starts. I'm sure most of these files are from OS 10. ...

My wife's G4 (867-ish mHz Quicksilver, DVR-103, 10.2.6) seems to have stopped recognizing DVR disks. She rarely uses them - I just went to back up her machine yesterday (it's been a few months) and first Retrospect Express reported some kind of catalog error when I inserted the last DVD-RW from the previous backup. I tried recreating the catalog, but it took all of a couple of...

up running an ftp server to do my Retrospect backups to. This machine is also sharing an Epson Stylus Photo 785 EPX printer. ...

it says in backup 2 that it will occur within 2 hours of the time you set. I just don't trust this app to backup my files. I use retrospect by dantz instead. ...

I got it working by setting up the connection manually on the xp box. I have an ftp server set up on it to use Dantz Retrospect to back up my home dir. I just thought it was weird that the airport would be sending out that subnet. ...

Stay away from DVD-RAM. It's not that fast, it doesn't hold that much data, and it's hard to find media. I had a DVD-RAM in my g4/450, ofcourse there are like 4 different sizes, 2.6G, 5.2G (double sided 2.6G disk), 4.7G, and 9.4G (double sided 4.7G). To add to that, some media is in a plastic cartridge, others are a normal disk. The DVD-RAM that came with my sawtooth only...

fully functional clients. And we keep working on those. Retrospect I just let sit. ...

I followed the instructions from this thread to move my home directory to a external hard drive. (Carefully making sure the external drive is set to not ignore permissions, and copying/verifying files/permissions using Retrospect.) Everything seems to be working except Photoshop Elements 2.0 (including new updates) keeps poping up an alert saying it can not write to a...

and it could very well be related to 10.2.8.crappo. Until we get a really advanced filing system that could truly undo itself to a recent date, or everyone runs Retrospect religiously, then we'll just have to accept that when the OS truly borks itself up, you reinstall. ...