Archive for November, 2007

Retro is ready to Meow

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

by Christopher G. Erckert
Small Business Technology Advisor

Yes, Time Machine will do almost everything you need but there are instances where an app like Retrospect is necessary. Since we have long recommended Retrospect to our Business Mac Clients (before there was Time Machine), we thought we would let you know that EMC has just added support to Apple’s latest operating system OSX 10.5.

Below is the email we got striaght from EMC:

Today EMC Insignia released an update to Retrospect for Macintosh (English language). The update adds support for Apple’s Leopard operating system, Mac OS 10.5. Localized versions will be available for download in December.

To read a list of changes and download the software, please visit:

Retrospect 6.1.138 Read Me: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=8117&p=2

Download: http://www.emcinsignia.com/updates

Retrospect Express 6.1.138 Read Me: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=8132&p=2

Download:http://www.emcinsignia.com/supportupdates/updates/retroexpress/“

Note: Here at Evo Networks we are discussing the most appropriate way for business to take advantage of the recent surge of backup tools now available for mac; including Time Machine, .Mac, Mozy’s Mac Beta, and traditional apps such as Retro. We’ll post our advise in a later blog.

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EMC Retrospect iProblem

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

by Christopher G. Erckert
Small Business Technology Advisor

Until there was Apple’s Time Machine. EMC Retrospect was the most appropriate way to handle backing up a Mac office and while Time Machine offers simplicity that Retrospect probably will never catch up to, Retrospect will be sticking around for a while.

That said, the iWork 08 and iLife 08 that comes pre-installed on new Macs or purchase seperately, isn’t playing nice with Retrospect and if you don’t tweak Retro’s settings you’ll be protecting less files then you think.

Fortunately EMC has a work around. Hear the details straight from the horse’s mouth:

” This email outlines a problem with the “Documents” selector when applied against Macintosh volumes. If you do not backup Macintosh computers, then you do not need this email.

If you are using the “Documents” Selector to backup Macintosh computers, you must review this email and take appropriate action.

Older versions of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system treated folders ending in “.app” and folders with the “bundle bit” set as applications.

Later versions of Apple software use the bundle bit to indicate special folders that should be treated as a single file to be opened by an application. Examples of this include:

iWork ‘08 (all apps)

  • Keynote
  • Numbers
  • Pages

iLife ‘08

  • iPhoto
  • iTunes
  • Garage Band

We have also seen this change apply to some .pdf files included with Apple branded software packages

Documents created by these applications WILL NOT be backed up using Retrospect’s “Documents” selector. To fix this problem please read the

Knowledgebase document located at: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=9632&p=2

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us directly.

Thank you

EMC Insignia Technical Support”

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