Florent Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Hi, How it's possible to ask Retrospect to launch a script when a specific drive is connected ? (like Personal Backup or IBMP) Regards, Florent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Connecting a disk does not trigger a Retrospect backup. Retrospect backups are schedule based. When the scheduled time happens, the script will start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florent Posted March 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 It's very sad, it's coming in future release ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 No version of Retrospect has this feature and it is not directly planned. You might be able to do this with future AppleScript/Automator support that is planned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florent Posted March 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Ok great, because a lot of our customers are asking the secretary to connected the backup drive once a week/month for externalized the backup. And this feature is very useful in this case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaduke Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Hi, How it's possible to ask Retrospect to launch a script when a specific drive is connected ? (like Personal Backup or IBMP) Regards, Florent Why not install and use the Retrospect client to perform the same function without having to move a drive from computer to computer? Cheers, Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florent Posted March 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 We need to place a copy of all the data (from the servers) inside a safe place outside the original site in case of fire or flooding. I don't understand what you're saying with the Retrospect Client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaduke Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 We need to place a copy of all the data (from the servers) inside a safe place outside the original site in case of fire or flooding. I don't understand what you're saying with the Retrospect Client. Instead of installing a (unique) copy of Retrospect on each system, then moving the drive from computer to computer and running Retrospect on each system, just install one copy of Retrospect and then install the Retrospect client on each of the other systems. The drive is attached to the system with Retrospect "server" installed and that system communicates with each client system to perform the backup. The drive can be disconnected after a successful backup and taken off-site and a different drive can be connected for the next backup. The Retrospect client is a small piece of software (compared to the full engine/GUI pair) that allows the Retrospect engine (installed in a central location) to communicate with other systems for backup and restore operations. Every version of Retrospect sold includes the client software, from 2 licenses in the most basic version up to unlimited in Multi-Server. Check out: http://video.emcinsignia.com/retrospect8/adding-clients.mov for info on adding clients to Retro 8 You get several advantages: 1. One copy of Retrospect to manage 2. One script and set of rules to update 3. Full scheduling capabilities-backups run without requiring someone to visit each system and interrupt work in progress to perform backups 4. Centralized reporting-you know what happened without having to review multiple logs, etc. 5. Less costly than multiple copies of Retrospect. Cheers, Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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