Chain scripts

[bazcurtis]

Hi,

 

I would like to be able to tell a script to run the next script after the script as finished rather than schedule it to follow on, chain them together.

 

At the moment you would have to make sure both scripts use the same execution unit so they didn't run at the same time. Maybe make a script group and they would follow on from one another.

 

Cheers

 

Michael

[skucherov]

First of all, Retrospect does not support a Source Group or Folder for "duplicate" backup types (doc bug: documentation does not mention this fact about Folder backups). So it is a real need to be able to run several "duplicate" scripts, each for one volume, without having them overlap in time.

 

What I do to workaround the lack of scripts to run scripts, at least for my simple case of wanting to run several scripts in succession, is to schedule the scripts to each start at the next minute after the previous one. Since Retrospect Professional only allows one script to run at a time, it is smart enough to queue other scripts with overlapping times in the "Waiting" queue. So my scripts run in order, thanks to having them start one minute after each other.

[skucherov]

You could also create "run" documents in Retrospect and use a batch file to launch them.

[bazcurtis]

I agree with all of that, but it would be much easier if you could do it within a script. I have Multi server so it is quite happy to run as many scripts as possible :-)