slapidus Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 I've now successfully written a script to initiate Normal and Recycle backups; however, scripts don't initiate when Windows is in screen saver and hybernation modes. Is there any way to overcome this problem without disabling screen saver and hybernation? Thanks. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Hi Retrospect will not launch when the machine is asleep, in hybernation mode or powered off. The screen saver should not make a difference. Monitor sleep and disk sleep are not a problem. When the whole machine goes to standby mode is where the trouble begins. Your best bet is to disable hybernation/standby and set Retrospect to shutdown the machine after the backup is finished. Thanks nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecrm Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Natew, Hi Any change on this issue with 6.5.350? When I view client properties and ask for a refresh, sometimes it comes to life in-time to respond, other times it takes more than once after the issuance of the "client not found" warning. Any setting availible to extend the time retro waits for a client to wake during backup? Any difference in the way retro performs this between manual and proactive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 Hi No changes have been made in this regard. Retrospect uses multicast to look for clients when it runs a backup. If Retrospect woke up clients it would have to wake up every client machine on the network every time a script ran. That means your machines would probably be on all night anyway... Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcronin Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 I made this work using external scripting. Here's my RetroEventHandler.bat file: @echo off set _PROC=%1 shift goto :%_PROC% :StartApp goto :EXIT :EndApp goto :EXIT :StartBackupServer goto :EXIT :StopBackupServer goto :EXIT :StartScript call wake %1 ask /n /ty,60 Pausing to wait for Retrospect client to start on %1 ... goto :EXIT :EndScript goto :EXIT :StartSource goto :EXIT :EndSource goto :EXIT :MediaRequest goto :EXIT :TimedOutMediaRequest goto :EXIT :ScriptCheckFailed goto :EXIT :NextExec goto :EXIT :StopSched goto :EXIT :PasswordEntry goto :EXIT :FatalBackupError goto :EXIT :EXIT and here's wake.bat: @echo off If %1==bc goto :bc If %1=="bc" goto :bc If %1==bcronin goto :bcronin If %1=="bcronin" goto :bcronin If %1==mac goto :mac If %1=="mac" goto :mac If %1==pcronin goto cronin If %1=="pcronin" goto cronin goto :exit :bc wolcmd 00e018fc63ef 192.168.0.101 255.255.255.0 goto :exit :bcronin wolcmd 000ea61e69cc 192.168.0.100 255.255.255.0 goto :exit :mac wolcmd 000A95B0553A 192.168.0.103 255.255.255.0 goto :exit cronin wolcmd 00e01899c890 192.168.0.102 255.255.255.0 :exit Wolcmd I got from: http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/ Ok, so it is a bit tedious having to enumerate the MAC addresses of all the clients in the bat file, but I only had a few clients so it wasn't worth doing anything more clever. The only fly left in the ointment for me is that the "bc" client regularly falls back asleep DURING a backup (something I am pursuing on another thread herein). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 This is very cool! Thanks! Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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