BRU or Retrospect

[stevek]

I have been using Retrospect 6.1 on my xserves, running 10.5.x I have had nothing but issues with it on my intel xserves.
I have had resort to mounting the shares via AFP, and backing them up from there.

I have a G5 as my tape server connected to a Tandberg Data Magnum 224 LTO-4 conected via Fiber Channel.
3 G5 xserves running 10.5.x
1 G4 xserve running 10.4.11.x
1 intel xserve 10.5.x
1 g5 tower running xserve 10.5.x
1 intel tower running xserve 10.5.x

I was wondering if any one else is using BRU, and if they have had better results with that?

[wemeck]

Steve–

What kind of issues were you having with restropect?
At one of my school buildings I have seen log in issues and users losing connections or access to their folders.
Also seeing disabled/asleep, but I never installed the No/AFP sleeper.

Please let me know.

Than
ks.

[skeates]

I have not looked at BRU, but herd it is not very friendly ( I may be mistaken). I am going through a similar issue at the moment were I need to move away from retrospect 6 because it can’t handle my data efficiently any more.

I was looking at a few products namely PresStore and Amanda. I have tried both PresStore is easy to work with once you play with it for a bit and works like a charm. Amanda I did not have as much luck with. I had issues setting it up so am staring towards PresStore. It has a price tag with it, but well worth it.

Just my two cents.

[wemeck]

My problem happened to be related to Retrospect 6 and 10.5.x running on intel servers. We did not see the problem on Retrospect 6 and 10.5.x on PPC servers.

Thanks,
-M

[jaduke]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: stevek[/u][p]I have been using Retrospect 6.1 on my xserves, running 10.5.x I have had nothing but issues with it on my intel xserves.
I have had resort to mounting the shares via AFP, and backing them up from there.

I was wondering if any one else is using BRU, and if they have had better results with that?
[/p][/QUOTE]
I’ve not looked at BRU for a couple of years, but never could get it really working the way that I wanted.

I’m still running Retrospect 6 (G5 xServe, 10.5.8 & Intel xServe 10.4.11 w/Kerio) and not having issues.

I’ve also been running Retrospect 8 and having good luck with it. 8 isn’t perfect, but getting better. The interface is very different than 6, so there’s that learning curve, but once you get the hang of things, it is pretty straightforward. The reason I adopted 8 was that it now supports Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (or Disk) that 6 never offered. Having those pieces of media off-site is a great peace-of-mind enhancement.

Cheers,
Jon

[stevek]

I did switch to BRU, the interface SUCKS but once you get past that it is real powerful. It is nice and scriptable and I haven’t had an issue once I set it up.

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