glibb Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 (edited) Hi all, I want to be able to run Retrospect on my Mac but after I have logged off. I can do this on the Windows version on our MS Exchange server OK. Edited March 11, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Unclear what you mean. You have Retrospect running a backup and you want to log off? That stops the Retrospect server on both Mac and Windows. Is this the Retrospect server or is it a client? Is this a scheduled backup? Then Retrospect server will launch when the backup starts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glibb Posted March 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Hi We have two Retro apps, one for our Windows servers and one for Macs and two tape drives (that's the way I like it!). On our windows server, Retro can log itself in to run scheduled backups using a user login designated in the preferences but on the Mac I want Retro to do the same. I have to leave my Mac logged in for Retro to run and because of security issues I would prefer to logoff from the Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Retrospect should automatically launch and run a scheduled backup if the Mac is left at the login window. If it does not, your retrorunfile may be corrupt. With Retrospect not running, go to /Library/Preferences/Retrospect and drag retrorunfile to the trash. Then launch and quit Retrospect, which will force the creation of a fresh copy of retrorunfile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 I have to leave my Mac logged in for Retro to runNo you don't. As twickland pointed out, Retrospect can run behind the OS X loginwindow, before any user has logged into the Finder. If the program is already running, however, you can't log out without quitting (os x requires all user space GUI programs to quit to achieve logout). So this only works for upcoming Scheduled operations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 We have never (well, except during testing) had anyone logged in to our headless Xserve while Retrospect is running its scheduled backups. Works fine (except when the retrorun file gets corrupted, which happens about once a month or so, preventing autolaunch - twickland provided the rubber chicken dance to get it going again). Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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