Another handy-dandy use for Retro 8

Sat Dec 19 08:45:55 PST 2009

Example: 
A simple rebuild of permissions on one client, and the next backup went from 13MB/m to 301MB/m (Mac Pro). Lo! This affected several other apps' performance positively! Hooray. 

Henry
On Dec 19, 2009, at 10:08 , Peter M. Fine wrote:

> You can add your approach to all previous versions as well as even a better SCSI diagnostic tool for cable problems or SCSI cards or terminators.  I had recommended such about 15 years ago to Dantz when the app was quite a bit less, since nothing tests out the complete "path" for a SCSI device like Retrospect.
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> -Peter
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> On Dec 19, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Henry M. Seiden wrote:
>> I found that Retro is nice early warning indicator of drive/connection issues- that's assuming you've got it running reliably and can establish a performance baseline.
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Host CPU: Mac Mini, 2GHz Core2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 120GB internal disk
Host Backup Media: 2x 1TB external 1394b, 500GB USB2.0
Retro Client: Retro 6.3.027
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