Retrospect problem

In article <ednahosner-58AF46.11071430102006.RemoveThis@news.giganews.com>,
Edna Hosner <ednahosner.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I use Retrospect's duplicate function every night to
> keep my boot cloned to a second drive inside my mac.
> It's worked flawlessly until a few days ago.
>
> Now i'm getting the following message...
>
> Trouble in Retrospect:
> Internal consistency check failed:
> Assertion check at "elem.c-923"
>
> This message appears during the scan of the destination
> disk.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

You don't say which version of Retrospect you're using, but I had a
nearly identical problem with Retrospect Express 6.1 that appears to
have been fixed by getting the latest "Retrospect 6.1 Driver Update"
(version 6.1.8.101). In my case, the error occured during the actual
copying stage (IIRC), but it was the same "consistency check" failure,
and within the same "elem.c" module (can't recall the exact line number,
tho). HTH...

/srh

In article
<nomailpls-66420C.18513130102006.TakeThisOut@news.lga.highwinds-media.com>,
BakersT <nomailpls.TakeThisOut@domain.invalid> wrote:

> In article <ednahosner-58AF46.11071430102006.TakeThisOut@news.giganews.com>,
> Edna Hosner <ednahosner.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I use Retrospect's duplicate function every night to
> > keep my boot cloned to a second drive inside my mac.
> > It's worked flawlessly until a few days ago.
> >
> > Now i'm getting the following message...
> >
> > Trouble in Retrospect:
> > Internal consistency check failed:
> > Assertion check at "elem.c-923"
> >
> > This message appears during the scan of the destination
> > disk.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> You don't say which version of Retrospect you're using, but I had a
> nearly identical problem with Retrospect Express 6.1 that appears to
> have been fixed by getting the latest "Retrospect 6.1 Driver Update"
> (version 6.1.8.101). In my case, the error occured during the actual
> copying stage (IIRC), but it was the same "consistency check" failure,
> and within the same "elem.c" module (can't recall the exact line number,
> tho). HTH...
>
> /srh

thanks, but i'm current on all the software

ed
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Edna Hosner <ednahosner.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I use Retrospect's duplicate function every night to
> keep my boot cloned to a second drive inside my mac.
> It's worked flawlessly until a few days ago.
>
> Now i'm getting the following message...
>
> Trouble in Retrospect:
> Internal consistency check failed:
> Assertion check at "elem.c-923"

Google says you're not alone:

<http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=retrospect+Internal
+consistency+check+failed+Assertion+check&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>

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thanks to both of you for the info

so what shall i do?

ed
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On 2006-10-30 13:07:14 -0600, Edna Hosner <ednahosner RemoveThis @yahoo.com> said:

> I use Retrospect's duplicate function every night to keep my boot
> cloned to a second drive inside my mac. It's worked flawlessly until a
> few days ago.
>
> Now i'm getting the following message...
>
> Trouble in Retrospect:
> Internal consistency check failed:
> Assertion check at "elem.c-923"
>
> This message appears during the scan of the destination
> disk.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> ed

I've been lucky enough never to encounter that one, but I've seen at
least one person state that deleting and adding the client again fixed
the problem for them. Have you seen these threads in the Retrospect
user forums?:

<http://forums.dantz.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Desktopworkgrupx&Number=68842&Searchpage=1&Main=66234&Words=elem.c-923&topic=&Search=true#Post68842>

<http://forums.dantz.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Desktopworkgrupx&Number=90466&Searchpage=1&Main=85765&Words=elem.c-923&topic=&Search=true>

<http://forums.dantz.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Desktopworkgrupx&Number=71850&Searchpage=1&Main=71850&Words=elem.c-923&topic=&Search=true#Post71850>

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On 2006-10-30 14:34:39 -0600, Edna Hosner <ednahosner DeleteThis @yahoo.com> said:

> thanks to both of you for the info
>
> so what shall i do?
>
> ed

Have you tried to see if what that one guy suggested works?

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On 2006-10-30 18:14:03 -0600, Edna Hosner <ednahosner.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> said:

> Has anyone used Carbon Copy Cloner?
> Is it a reliable alternative?
>
> ed

It's only an alternative is you ignore all of the features of
Retrospect except plain duplication.

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JR

> > Has anyone used Carbon Copy Cloner?
> > Is it a reliable alternative?
> >
> > ed
>
> It's only an alternative is you ignore all of the features of
> Retrospect except plain duplication.

That's the only function i use.
I keep two drives in identical states every night
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On 2006-10-31 00:21:33 -0600, Edna Hosner <ednahosner.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> said:

>>> Has anyone used Carbon Copy Cloner?
>>> Is it a reliable alternative?
>>>
>>> ed
>>
>> It's only an alternative is you ignore all of the features of
>> Retrospect except plain duplication.
>
> That's the only function i use.
> I keep two drives in identical states every night

Then I'm sorry to tell you, you wasted money buying Retrospect. Its
real power is in its other features.

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Jolly Roger <jollyroger RemoveThis @null.org> wrote:

> > That's the only function i use.
> > I keep two drives in identical states every night
>
> Then I'm sorry to tell you, you wasted money buying Retrospect. Its
> real power is in its other features.

True. For simply making a bootable clone, you can use LaCie's
SilverKeeper, which is free.

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In article <ednahosner-A078FB.16140330102006.DeleteThis@news.giganews.com>,
Edna Hosner <ednahosner.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Has anyone used Carbon Copy Cloner?
> Is it a reliable alternative?

SuperDuper! is a better choice. It's programmable to do the
backup/cloning automatically. Well worth the money. You can try it out
for free. Be aware that SD! and CCC don't do incremental snapshots in
the sense Retrospect does, but it doesn't seem like you're using that
feature.

--Fred