Retrospect 6 "unattended Options" In Retrospect 8?

[jpkunst]

Greetings,

 

I just upgraded from Retrospect 6.1 to Retrospect 8.

I can't for the life of me find any option in Retrospect 8 that corresponds with the "Unattended options" in Retrospect 6.1, which allow you to choose what happens when a scheduled script finishes: Stay in Retrospect, Quit, Restart, Sleep, Shut Down. See attachment.

 

How can I tell Retrospect 8 what to do when a scheduled script finishes? What I want to happen is my Mac shutting down after running the backup script.

 

Thanks in advance,

Jan Pieter

 

 

Edited June 19, 2011 by jpk

[Mayoff]

Those types of options do not exist in version 8.

[jpkunst]

Those types of options do not exist in version 8.

 

That's what I was afraid of. A pity, those options were useful to me.

Anyway, for those interested, I created a workaround which is even somewhat more flexible than the "all-or-nothing" 6.1 options.

 

First, I created a Retrospect "Copy" script called Retrospect Finished which does nothing but copy an empty file called "retrospect_finished" from a source directory to a target directory. I let this script run on the days that my other unattended backup scripts run, as the last script of the day.

 

Then, I created a shell script called check_retrospect_finished.sh which checks if the file retrospect_finished exists in the target directory:

 

#!/bin/bash

if [ -f /path/to/retrospect_finished ]; # if the file 'retrospect_finished' exists
then
rm /path/to/retrospect_finished # remove it
osascript /path/to/shutdown.scpt # and shut the machine down
fi

 

shutdown.scpt contains this:

 

tell application "System Events"
shut down
end tell

 

And as the last step, I created a launchd.plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents to run the retrospect_finished.sh shell script every 15 minutes:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>Label</key>
 <string>name.of.plist.file.without.extension</string>
 <key>ProgramArguments</key>
 <array>
   <string>/path/to/check_retrospect_finished.sh</string>
 </array>	
 <key>StartInterval</key>
 <integer>900</integer>  
</dict>
</plist>

 

Et voilà: when the Retrospect Finished copy script runs as the last Retrospect script of the day, my Mac is shut down by the check_retrospect_finished.sh shell script at most 15 minutes later.

 

I hope this is useful to someone.

 

Best wishes,

Jan Pieter

Edited June 20, 2011 by jpk