cgtyoder Posted July 19, 2010 Report Share Posted July 19, 2010 Running Retro Client 7.7.06 on Win 7 x64. I get the message as in the Subject line, when the Client wants to display the countdown to backup, or it is finished, etc. Is there any way to bypass this so the countdown/completed/etc dialog just displays? Thanks for any assistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 I'd like to know too - it's happened since Vista came about and still doesn't work right out the box. Can't say I've looked into it much though as the less change my users get of cancelling their backup, the better! Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewA Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 You can turn off the notifications about a successful backup from the client itself under the preferences tab, as for the countdown that will be from the options of the proactive script itself. Under options more choices, then countdown you can set it to 0. With the UAC that was implemented in Vista and 7 when Retrospect goes to display a message the OS is putting the message into it's own session, at some point we will change how we display the message so that it will no longer do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgtyoder Posted July 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 But I don't want to turn off notifications - they are important. Are you saying turning off UAC will "fix" the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewA Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 Not really no, to stop getting the pop up messages you would have to turn off and disable the Interactive services detection service which you probably don't want to do. The user will still not see the notifications however, there is no work around to have the notifications come up normally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon88 Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 Personally I think client/user popups from Retrospect are not really needed anyway. It's the system engineer/admin's job to look at Retrospect's backup log to determine if everything went well. Just my personal opinion. Other situations might be different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) I find the countdown notifications helpful. For example, if a colleague is in a meeting on his laptop demoing our software he has the opportunity to cancel the backup. If no notification were given his laptop would be thrashed to death, making the demo clunky. Of course, the user could just turn off Retrospect, but then he'd never turn it back on again! It's a touch poor that after all these years of Vista (Jan 2007) and now Win7 that it is still not capable of displaying a message to the user like any other tool can on my machine.. Rich Edited July 22, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon88 Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 True enough. But we do not do backup of systems during office hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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