![]() However this has always seemed to mean 14 generated component Activity Thread sub-Scripts-plus one for a possible parent Proactive Script and one for the overall “backup server”. P.S.: The maximum in the Retrospect Mac Console preferences is Allow 16 Activity Threads for Editions more expensive than Desktop. As I edit this, 587 users have viewed the thread discussing this bug in Retrospect’s Mac Bug Reports sub-sub-forum-so I think the lack of a fix is a real problem. Thus, whenever a customer with a license for more than the Desktop Edition starts his/her Console, the Engine reverts to running up to 14 concurrent script operations-likely more than his/her probably-old “backup server” Mac can handle without bogging down its CPU. Mac Version 18, in order to make sure that Solo and Desktop Edition customers don’t get more concurrent script operations than they’re paying for, re-initializes that preference based purely on the Edition license whenever the Console is started. That preference setting used to be saved in the bowels of the running-so-long-as-machine-booted Engine, so that the Console-when it’s started and stopped like an ordinary application-would re-initialize it to its previously-set limit. Retrospect Mac’s GUI is in a separate Console, which has long had an Allow _ Activity Threads preference setting that tells the Engine to limit concurrent script operations to a number that a customer’s “backup server”-often an old Mac-can handle. The implementation of one of those feature restrictions-the limitation of Solo and Desktop Edition “backup servers” to 2 and 4 concurrent script operations respectively per “Retrospect Backup: Compare Editions”-has resulted in a Version 18 bug that remains unfixed 9 months after customers reported it in Retrospect’s Mac Bug Reports sub-sub-forum. Part of that de-facto price increase is the restriction of features in the Solo and Desktop Editions, intended to make customers upgrade to the $549 Single Server 5 Edition-or $799 Single Server 20 Edition to continue tape backup. That’s the least part of a general Retrospect Version 18 de-facto price increase, which appears to have been motivated by StorCentric’s Drobo subsidiary being temporarily unable to deliver its hardware product because of supply chain disruptions. However file-name prefixing is another possible method of flagging, but in any case IMHO a ransomware application that has been adapted for pure sabotage wouldn’t need to flag encrypted files.Ī problem with your “$119 for Desktop”, Agen Schmitz, is that the Desktop Edition price is really $159-because “All editions above Solo include Annual Support and Maintenance (ASM)” per Retrospect Backup 18 Licensing Changes. That seems as though it’d be a Windows-only anomaly, but such changes’ purpose is to flag a file that’s been encrypted so the ransomware won’t encrypt it again-which would make decryption when the ransom has been paid impossible. Currently Retrospect’s Anomaly Detection feature looks-in the Engine’s Compare phase-for updates to files that change their extensions. To see what I mean by “hurriedly”, read my posts from 20 February through 28 March in “Retrospect 13: a choice for backup of multiple drives to offsite rotation or cloud”-a thread I’ve maintained since 2015 in the Ars Technica Mac forum (I can’t remove the version number from the thread title after my 2016-when Retrospect cloud backup was announced-revision).Ī foundation of Retrospect is that its “backup server” Engine code has remained common to both its Mac and Windows variants since Fall 2009. And I think potential Russian sabotage was what motivated Retrospect “Inc.” to hurriedly release 18.5.2 on 15 February 2022. The exception is ThiefQuest / EvilQuest, which is as much an espionage/sabotage tool as a ransomware tool. ![]() #1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power ModeĪ problem with your “it’s a Windows concern”, Adam Engst, is that the June 2020 MacWorld article you linked to in your 15 November 2021 issue cites examples of Mac ransomware that are mostly at least 5 years old.#1632: Apple Card Savings accounts, SOS in the iPhone status bar, Tab Wrangler, Focus in iOS 16.#1633: macOS 13 Ventura and other OS updates, 10th-gen iPad, M2 iPad Pro, 3rd-gen Apple TV 4K, Apple services price hikes.#1634: New Messages features, Apple Q4 2022 results, Preview drops PostScript, iOS/iPadOS 15.7.1, Dvorak on iPhone and iPad.#1635: Adobe/Pantone quarrel, does Matter matter yet?, OneWorld 65W international charger, corral your email with SaneBox, e3 Software sponsoring TidBITS.
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