Hi guys. I'm wondering why I don't see my NAS as a target destination for backups. I have the NAS mounted using SMB in OSX Sierra. My NAS is a Synology running DSM6.1. Thanks a lot!
I have a single media set with 2 members, each member being on a different NAS share. The total size of the backed up data being 4.5 TB. Recently when restoring files we have had the "needs media" error come up. I am using a Mac for the server and client, and I am not mounting the NAS shares in the Finder. But I can independently access the shares on another computer to check that files are present. Verifying the Media Set eventually gives the needs media error. I don't attempt to Choose media, as I know that way lies madness. The usual operator selected Choose Media while restoring and inadvertently littered the share with new folders/members that contain nothing. Repairing the Media Set allows me to select the members. It tells me how many files are in each, and the verification lasts for just 1 second and proclaims success, but really nothing has changed thereafter. Restores still fail. Rebuilding allows me to select the members, review information about them, and the rebuilding process begins, but stops with "needs media". I have removed and added both shares to the Sources list also, and tried the above again. The shares are accessed via SMB. I have closed down other networking services on these shares. I am running Retrospect 10.1 on a Mac OSX 10.6.8, backing up to 2 Samba shares running on two identical QNAP NAS devices. My next step seems to be to put transfer the media to local USB disks and try to rebuild from there. A lot of data to throw about, so this is getting time consuming as well as futile. I would be grateful for any bright ideas to resolve this issue.
When backing up some btrieve database files on a buffalo nas, using retrospect 10.1 mac (open file backup NOT running), I successfully back up several hundred of these files every night from a single directory, but I have a handful of important files that won't back up, giving me "can't read. error -1017 insufficient permissions". I know 3 of these files ARE open, and I don't expect them to be backed up. I've used Retrospect for 20 years and know there are several reasons for this error and I've tracked through them. These files are not open, not in use, not locked, and their ownership and permissions setup is identical to the several hundred other files in that directory that do back up nightly without a problem. Any ideas?
I have just started backing a 4TB USB disk (with 1.9 TB of data) to a NAS disk using a new install of Retrospect 10. I added the 4.5 TB NAS disk as a share and added it as a disk media set containing just one member, configured to use 90% of the available space. The backup got a good way through the process of backing up (1.7 TB) but then threw up an error saying "needs media". I created a new member to the set on the same disk, and it finished the backup after a couple of retries. However, running the backup again it keeps demanding new media, even though the disk is not half full. As far as I can see it is configured to append to the media set, not to try to start on a new member. I wonder if I am missing something fundamental that is causing it to fail. I have read through the documentation but can't find anything that addresses this, as the "needs media" error seems to be more related to tape drives. Any help appreciated!
I have been trying to get several AFP shares to work. I have several local machines running Mac OS X, and a couple of NetBSD servers running Netatalk. The problem I have is that once I choose a "source" at a particular URL - afp://mercy/backup, for instance, that is the ONLY volume that retro will mount. No matter the URL I give to retro, it will only mount that share. If I unmount the share (from inside retro) and re-mount a different AFP volume, I can "browse" the contents, and I get the "other" volume. Sometimes I can get a second volume to mount. However, the data (if I browse the content) is actually the "stuck" volume. On occassion, I can mount a second volume while the first is still mounted, but the volume name comes up as a duplicate of the "stuck" one. it appears that restarting the engine can *sometimes" free up retro to mount a different volume without unmounting the "stuck" one, but the name of the volume is always the same as the stuck one (regardless of what volume I choose) This is a pretty serious bug. It makes it impossible to put these NAS shares on a backup schedule.
How do you set up a NAS configuration on disk space provided by an internet provider The manual says to install a Retrospect Client software, but the only options are Mac, Win or Linux when I want to set up a NAS on disk space of which I don't know what OS is being used and I imagine uses none of these.
I am evaluating Retrospect server, it is working ok for backing up the Server 2008 to a Tandberg RDX Quikstation. We also need to backup data kept on a Buffalo Linkstation, wondering if this is even possible as I am not finding a way to do it. Is there a client for the Linkstation? Any way to do it without a client?