Re: OT: Backup Strategies
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texte = I'm still unable to restore a whole bootable volume, so it's on the dislike side and I'm switching back to Retrospect. I tried it so many time now, even with some help from BRU tech support, it doesn't do it's job as it should, or it's just way to complicated. Why can't I just restore data to an empty FW volume like Retro does? BRU likes - fast and solid UNIX tool - support for almost any tape library - client/server communication is great BRU dislikes - complicated - bootable restore failed (for me ...) - unable to backup to more than one harddisk Retro likes - easy to use - solid, if run as backupserver on sep. machine - bootable restore works - very great client backup strategy Retro dislikes - speed - no further development on Mac product - Mail reporting is poor My conclusion is, I'm back on Retrospect. We need to save 10 servers and 3 workstations. In the past I had problems saving individual servers, Retro often lost the connection to them, but since I set the network speed on the ethernetcard to 100MBit duplex fixed, this problems vanished. Thierry > Clint Davis wrote: > Thierry, > > Any further thoughts on BRU? Likes? Dislikes? > > > On 9/13/07 1:19 AM, "thierry"
wrote: > >> How to exactly restore a whole system volume with BRU? >> >> I tried it several times, but my target system always gets scrambled ... >> >> Maybe someone here can tell me what I'm doing wrong: >> >> - I've got a backup server with BRU server. The server is backing up my >> apache server, first fully then differential. This seems to work fine. >> >> - For testing purposes I want to restore the whole system to a another mac. >> - I set up a mac with 10.4.3, installed the BRU agent and connected it >> to BRU server (my apache has 10.4.9, but people at BRU told me that this >> doesn't matter ...) >> - On the server I chose the full backup set for the apache server, >> selected the apache servers root as source and the new macs root as target. >> - I did the restore without overwriting files (if I choose to do so, the >> target system will get a kernel panic) >> >> - After successfully restored the backupset, I restarted the target mac. >> >> - The target mac now has 10.4.9 (as the apache has), but several apps >> fail to start. So does Safari, DiskUtility and also the Userssection in >> the system preferences. >> >> My conclusion: the backup is ok for individual files or folders, but not >> for restoring a whole system. >> >> The guys at BRU don't know what I'm doing wrong ... >> >> Have you ever restored an OS X system successfully? > > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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I'm still unable to restore a whole bootable volume, so it's on the dislike side and I'm switching back to Retrospect. I tried it so many time now, even with some help from BRU tech support, it doesn't do it's job as it should, or it's just way to complicated. Why can't I just restore data to an empty FW volume like Retro does? BRU likes - fast and solid UNIX tool - support for almost any tape library - client/server communication is great BRU dislikes - complicated - bootable restore failed (for me ...) - unable to backup to more than one harddisk Retro likes - easy to use - solid, if run as backupserver on sep. machine - bootable restore works - very great client backup strategy Retro dislikes - speed - no further development on Mac product - Mail reporting is poor My conclusion is, I'm back on Retrospect. We need to save 10 servers and 3 workstations. In the past I had problems saving individual servers, Retro often lost the connection to them, but since I set the network speed on the ethernetcard to 100MBit duplex fixed, this problems vanished. Thierry > Clint Davis wrote: > Thierry, > > Any further thoughts on BRU? Likes? Dislikes? > > > On 9/13/07 1:19 AM, "thierry" wrote: > >> How to exactly restore a whole system volume with BRU? >> >> I tried it several times, but my target system always gets scrambled ... >> >> Maybe someone here can tell me what I'm doing wrong: >> >> - I've got a backup server with BRU server. The server is backing up my >> apache server, first fully then differential. This seems to work fine. >> >> - For testing purposes I want to restore the whole system to a another mac. >> - I set up a mac with 10.4.3, installed the BRU agent and connected it >> to BRU server (my apache has 10.4.9, but people at BRU told me that this >> doesn't matter ...) >> - On the server I chose the full backup set for the apache server, >> selected the apache servers root as source and the new macs root as target. >> - I did the restore without overwriting files (if I choose to do so, the >> target system will get a kernel panic) >> >> - After successfully restored the backupset, I restarted the target mac. >> >> - The target mac now has 10.4.9 (as the apache has), but several apps >> fail to start. So does Safari, DiskUtility and also the Userssection in >> the system preferences. >> >> My conclusion: the backup is ok for individual files or folders, but not >> for restoring a whole system. >> >> The guys at BRU don't know what I'm doing wrong ... >> >> Have you ever restored an OS X system successfully? > > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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