Thanks for your views. I respect them.

I reached Retrospect this morning and they found the problem. It was an easy fix.

Everything is running super again.

But I will suggest QRecall to my colleagues in my Mac User groups.

Thanks again....very much,

Mark B Anstendig
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Thanks,

I assume archive is different from a simple copy of a drive or a backup of a drive.

I am not interested in archiving. I just want to create a schedule to do around 5 separate copies of 5 hard drives containing my historic photograpgs (see www.anstendig.com) and to do them simultaneously. The copies will be, of course, on another 5 drives.

Also, does QRecall work with FIS based port
multiplier enclosures. FIRMTEK contacted me and thinks Retrospect cannot do simultaneous actions on their enclosures because Ret. has a problem working with that type of FIS based enclosures.

Thanks again,

M

Retrospect (Ret) will run up to 8 scripts simultaneously if they do not have source or target on the same drive as another script. If two scripts have sources or targets on the same drive, then the last one will have to wait until the first one finishes. That is fine with me.

What Ret seems to not be able to do is run simultaneous scripts to the 5 separate drives installed on my Firmtek Seritek 5 Bay drive enclosure simultaneously. At the moment Ret is only running the otherwise unrelated scripts targeted for those 5 drives one drive at a time. (BTW, there is only one script per drive).

So my concern and interest in QRecall is to find a backup application that can address separate backup or copy scripts to each of those 5 hard drives installed in the SERITEK enclosure and run their backup scripts simultaneously, not one at a time.

Do you or anyone else know the Firmtek enclosures and know it QRecall can back up separate, unrelated scripts to each one simultaneously?

As soon as the next MacPro machines come out, I will be buying one. So capability should not be a big issue.

I would be very grateful for the answer to this question.

Thanks,

Mark B Anstendig

Can QRecall simultaneously backup more than one script at a time, like Retrospect 8 can?

If so, can it simultaneously backup scripts that are on separate partitions of the same hard drive, which Retrospect cannot?

Can QRecall also simultaneously backup separate hard drives that are mounted in the same hard drive enclosure, like my Firmtek/Seritek 5 Bay drive enclosure. My Retrospect 8 will not simultaneously do the 5 separate drives mounted in my 5 Bay Firmtek/Seritek drive enclosure, but waits while each is copied separately, one after the other. That enclosure is connected to my Mac Pro computer by one single SATA cable. The five drives are 2 TB drives, formatted in Disk Utility as Mac OS Extended journaled.

My Computer info is:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F20265EE

Thanks for the answers to these questions.

Mark B Anstendig