[Dean Tyson]

Yes, mine is also still running 100%, but the issue is when you do decide to upgrade the Mac, the older versions won’t work…

[Dean Tyson]

Any idea if our old license will work with this or can be “coverted” some how?
Really don’t have another $549 to get the new version…

[Dean Tyson]

Hi Guys and Girls.
Been using Bru PE for years at our company, now I see this.
Sorry if I am a bit behind on the news, but truly sad to see and hear of this.

My question is that I am now in desperate need of the Bru PE LTFS software and I see it needs a password to open the install file.
We are a small business and really cannot afford to now move our 400+ LTO archive across to new systems and formats.

Is there anybody that can maybe assist with this or are we now a bit screwed moving forward?
Will our current BRU PE license work with the new Argest system?

Bit in the dark here and hope someone can show me some light.

Thanks in advance.

Dean

[Dean Tyson]

Well OK then… Looks like you also take more than needed precautions when it comes to archiving… ????
I perhaps have too much faith in LTO and only have a single copy, almost 300 tapes, all full and locked up in a big safe. Yea, I know, but let’s not go down that road………….

As for High Sierra, I also had serious issues when it first came out, but after all the fixes and new BRU PE versions, it is very stable.
I would suggest grabbing a spare drive, slap High Sierra on and the latest BRU PE and give it some test runs. This is what I did earlier this year and have had no issues since. (Touch Wood!) Well apart from what happened earlier in this thread…

As for network, we use a mixed environment at the office, with Mac, PC and Linux boxes so I use SMB and CIFS (for Linux) which is more friendly between all the machines.
Being in Production, we use external drives on shoots. These and ALL flash drives get formatted to ExFAT for compatibility… Slightly slower, but worth it for the compatability side.
My main machine is a PC, which I’m using now, but all copies and archives run through a Mac Pro 2012 sitting next to me.

I’m pretty old school and prefer a simpler network and setup.
Being the only IT/Engineer guy, it just makes it easier and faster to sort out issues when something goes wrong.

[Dean Tyson]

I think the initial issue with the verify “crashing” or “freezing” is maybe because of the type of archive.
I was archiving 13 years of audio backups totalling 9.7TB and some of the files are very small, some less than 1MB and there was millions and millions of small files. So I am just assuming that the actual graphical interface or even apple itself got a bit overwhelmed trying to keep up with the counting…?
All I can really think of.

As for your other speed issue, can’t help you there, but I am assuming the drives you are pulling the info from, or archiving from can deliver the content faster than needed…?
Had a similar issue in the past and was on a 1GB network.
Upgraded a few select machines to 10GB and I can now copy from our storage at 300-450mbps constant.
Helps with archiving also as it all runs much faster.

Quick question, are you perhaps using High Sierra for your archiving?
Reason I ask is that I was running Sierra for ages even when we moved to the 10GB network, and speeds were horrible! Max network was just over 100…
Upgraded to High Sierra and EVERYTHING came to life.

Just a thought.

[Dean Tyson]

Hi Doug.

Yes, I did check that and they are good. The problem occurred on the verify.

But as I mentioned, it doesn’t actually look like a crash though as it was still running in the background.

But with all my archives I am VERY pedantic. I will not chance it if I don’t get the “Completed Successfully” window.
So I delete that archive, change a few things then try it again until it works.

Just the way I work. Can’t afford to chance a dodgy archive even if it looks good.

I am about to run a new archive with different files so I will see how that goes.

[Dean Tyson]

So after 2 weeks of strugling with this issue, I have finally solved it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long story short, LEAVE THE ARCHIVE BE! Let it run!

When I saw that there was an app crash in the log, I could hear that the actual verify was still running on the drive and also that the app had not actually crashed or frozen up!
I could still stop the archive by clicking the button.

So I basically left the archive to run, then the verify and left that to also run.
Low and behold it eventually finished and gave me the much needed ARCHIVE COMPLETE window!

I have had this on 4 archives now, all “crashing” but completing fully.

So if you encounter this error, just leave it and let it run. Might take a few extra hours to finish, but it eventually will without any errors.

I hope this can help someone out there! Drove me insane for the past 2 weeks!

[Dean Tyson]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for this, and I will give it a go if this archive fails again.
I have just updated the software now to the latest 3.2.6.80. I was using 3.2.5.71 before. It worked flawlessy, but this 1 single 9.75TB archive is giving me problems.

What I did try before was the manual verify, which also locked up BRU PE when it ran which was very odd…. After upgrading, I tried the verify again and it ran without any issues for about 30 minutes before I stopped it.

So I am now re running the whole archive again (LOL! Not in any rush. Just want it right!) and we see if it goes through.

Problem with the last few tries was that the archive did complete and save, but I didn’t get the actual files that it gives you on completion because it crashed in the verify.
Even though the full archive is there and I can see and access everything, I still don’t trust it until I get that much need “ARCHIVE COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY” message.
That just me and how I work. With the data I’m archiving, I can’t afforsd to take any shortcuts.

But if this one fails again, I will do as you suggested above. This will give me a successfull archive, then I can manuall verify.

Thanks again for the help.
Just wish somebody could speak Apple and tell us more about why this crashes….

[Dean Tyson]

I’m no expert at this, but from what you have said, makes no sense…
Restore is the simplest thing and the reason you are needing to take the VERY long way around is that the Catalogs from all the archives are missing on the new install…

Just a thought, that if you are using or sharing 2 machines with the same archives, it might help to do a Catalog backup from the first machine and then restore that to the second machine.

This should then show all the archives from the first and make life easier using the inbuilt restore option….

I may be wrong, hope this helps…

[Dean Tyson]

Does anybody have any idea whatever happened with this BruPE Windows beta test version?

Is it still happening? Been over a year since the announcement…?