Subject: Re: netatalk search volume
From: jeff@sudjam.com
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 08:27:04 EDT
> > 2. When I go to use Retrospect to backup the file server remotely,
> > Retrospect 4.3 will index the server display a list but as it starts to
> > run will return an error "Too many files open (-43)".
>
> Under which MacOS version are you running Retrospect? There are some issues
> with versions before MacOS 9.x and running out of file handles. Check it
> with the ListOpenFiles Utility: <http://www.alsoft.com/AskAl/download.html>
>
> I don't know if it has something to do with the way, RetroSpect tries to
> check what to backup. With Helios EtherShare you can support a switch
> "nofakeoffspring" when trying to backup from a Mac. This prevents RetroSpect
> from giving up before backupping when your volume is full of folders.
>
> There were some problems reported on volumes with a lot of files with custom
> icons.
I'm running Retrospect 4.3 on OS 9.1, it's a clean install with only
Retrospect on the machine. I noticed something odd about this issue. If
I unmount the file server and remount.
1. run retrospect do backup
2. out of 3 test it backed up 1014, 1017 and 1011 files then gives "too
many files open" error
3. run backup again
4. immediately gives "too many files open"
5. quit retrospect
6. unmount netatalk volume
7. remount netatalk volume
8. rerun retrospect and backup
9. backs up 1017 file and gives too many files error.
So to me it looks like it's not completely a OS 9x issue it has something
to do with the netatalk volume that is mounted on the desktop.
> > The server is running a RAID but it's really import we can do DLT backups to
> > archive old projects.
>
> ... and maybe to backup recent projects too? ;-)
Yeeees that would be nice too.
Jeff
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