Restrospect

up through Retrospect every night. Hasn't failed yet. ...

Thanks for the info...!!!! I have read about the target disk mode. If my restore using the Retrospect software (doing this today 5/2/06), meaning get the permissions back, I guess I'll have to try you're idea. I'm starting to run out of time, I need to have all this done by May 10th. So you could say I'm starting to sweat a little on this one. I never really even touched...

Ditto only preserves permissions when copying from local disk to local disk. This is where you're running into issues. Try hooking up the old server in target disk mode to the new server and then use ditto (don't forget the -rsrc flag). Also, you would want to use "sudo ditto -rsrc" as an admin user rather than log in as root.

at's what's happening. I'm going to be upgrading our version of Retrospect. We only have Workgroup currently and we're going to upgrade to Server. I'm told by Retrospect that their software will transfer the permissions as well. Hopefully I'll be test that out the first week of May. ...

Well, turns out that the server OS was swiss cheese. We got a new box and rebuilt it. I used ditto -V -rsrc to move the data off the dying box to an external hard drive. When i try to use ditto to move the data onto the new box (400GB drive) the transfer locks up on a different file every time. The old server was a G4 XServe with 1GB RAM and the new box is a Dual G5...

Where did I ever argue that there are no benefits of this? There are benefits, no doubt about it. And I challenge you to show where I said that no benefits exist because of this. You can think that, but it would be strictly an opinion.... My view is logic based, and doesn't require a negative view point to reach it's conclusion. Firstly... 50%, Photoshop and Adobe...

In retrospect, I'd be more worried about Apple _not_ releaseing something like BootCamp or virtualisation. Think about it: before the end of the year, or early on next year, Apple will release Leopard, which will be the first publically in-stores available Mac OS X version that runs natively on x86 hardware. Just like with Windows on Apple hardware, sooner or later a way will...

I seem to have killed my new Intel Mini. I have not called apple yet, but I may have to. I have a mac that now wont do anything, won't boot target disk mode, wont boot single user, won't boot off system restore disk, wont even bring up the bootcamp loader or allow me to zap the pram. In retrospect, I was not exactly following bootcamp instructions. I had previously...

alling or reinstalling can possibly cause data loss. You may lose important files. Be sure to have a backup plan. Consider buying a backup program such as Dantz' Retrospect for Mac. Roxio's disc burning software called Toast can now back up files by spanning stuff across CDs or DVDs. ...

We have several account managers at work, who are often out of the office and take their laptops with them. Sometimes we need to access information in their email & documents folder while they're out and about. I'm trying to find a solution so that they can continue as normal, but we effectively have an easily accessible duplicate set of information held in the office. ...