twohats Posted February 21, 2002 Report Share Posted February 21, 2002 According to the Retrospect 5.6 manual the product does not support client shutdown (after backup) because "most PC's require a hardware button be pressed to shutdown". That might have been the case some years ago, but nearly all PC's made in the last 4+ years will support a soft shutdown. I am requesting Dantz add this feature to help us users save some energy costs!!! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted February 22, 2002 Report Share Posted February 22, 2002 It is also on my list of suggestions.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ram Posted March 20, 2002 Report Share Posted March 20, 2002 Even better would be to provide a way to handle what might be termed "client backup events", with the ability to launch a process or script at each event. Suggested events would be: Client Backup Start Client Backup Complete Client Backup Abort Client Backup Error Clent Volume Start Client Volume Complete Client Volume Abort Client Volume Error This would allow the client to shutdown certain processes that might be holding open files (for example, on my workstation I run a developer copy of MS-SQL Server that holds open files that I want backed-up. I often forget to stop the service before leaving for the day). Having these events would allow me to write scripts that would shutdown SQL Server before the client backup started, and then shutdown the machine entirely when the backup had completed. Thanks for considering this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted April 3, 2002 Report Share Posted April 3, 2002 Retrospect has the ability to use external client scripting. In the User Guide on page 193 you will find instructions on "Implementing a Script with a Retrospect Client." It explains how to use external scripting with a Retrospect client. Melissa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithos Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 me three, scripting sounds cool and dandy but i want users to check a box on their client and lets face it it cant be rocket science to get windows machines to shutdown THis surely has to be in the next release ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithos Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 client scripting bit in the book says can use 2 events, doesnt say which ! i presume start and end ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithos Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 ok i read it a few times and ran a scripy to find out what was happening ... Buried in the docs the keys are startsource and endsource - i think you should amned yourt docs to emphasise this . cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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