eeolson Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Hello! I have backups that run every night at 10:00 pm. My weekly recycles will take over 24 hrs to run. My nightly normal backups will take less than half an hour. I'd like to schedule a Duplicate script that duplicates the catalog file to an external disk after the backups run. However, if I schedule it for midnight, it will kick off while the recycle backup is running (if I leave Retrospects ability to run multiple executions at once in Preferences). I don't really want to schedule it for 25 hours later, because a normal backup has run in the meantime. There seems to be several ways in theory to get this to work: 1) set the number of Execution Units to "1" in retrospect preferences, and schedule the duplicate for 11pm - this way, only one Execution will run at a time, and the duplicate will wait until the Recycles and Normals are done. 2) a more elegant way would be to have the Recycle and Normal scripts be able to call the duplicate script after they complete. I don't think this currently available - Is it? It would be nice. 3) it would also be nice to have a script be able to call a windows script upon completion, and I could set up a RoboCopy script to duplicate the catalog files on script completion. I also don't think this is possible. Is it? So, any other ideas on how to get the duplicate to run right after the backups without turning Executions down to 1? - eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 You should be able to schedule the backups and copy script to a specific activity thread, say number 4. That way they will execute in sequence, while other backups may run on the other activity threads. (I seem to have selected number 1 instead of 4, but you get the idea.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeolson Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 You should be able to schedule the backups and copy script to a specific activity thread, say number 4. That way they will execute in sequence, while other backups may run on the other activity threads. That looks great, but I can't find that dialog box, or that choice anywhere. Is it in script options? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Sorry, I posted a screen shot from the Mac version. Here is Windows version 7.6. It's called "Execution Unit" instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeolson Posted November 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2013 I don't have that selection box in my Disk-To-Disk version. Perhaps it has been taken out of D to D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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