ocjlb Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 I have browsed this and other forums and have a sense of how best to configure mac clients, but I haven't found much regarding wireless client set up. Could anyone provide a concise "best practices" on how to configure wireless mac clients? In particular, I am having issues "waking up" my clients. Of course, when the systems are powered up and in use, "seeing" the clients is not an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 There are three issues at play here. (1) Currently, Retrospect 8 only supports WakeOnLAN for proactive backup, and cannot send the "magic packet" for scheduled or scripted backups. (2) Additionally, you need to investigate getting the "magic packets" passed through your router from the LAN to the WLAN. That's non-trivial, and Retrospect, even when fixed to send WoL packets for scheduled backups, can't solve that problem - it's a router configuration issue, and you need to be careful so that the WoL packets don't get routed out to other interfaces (e.g., WAN). You can test getting WoL packets through your router from LAN to WLAN by using the freeware "WakeOnLan" utility: WakeOnLan (3) Strictly speaking, the "magic packet" specification is only for ethernet, not wireless, but some wireless chips have added the necessary hardware support (it has to be supported in the interface chip). The easiest way, unless you are only concerned with proactive backups, is to schedule a wakeup for the client using Apple's Energy Saver preference pane. When (if) Retrospect 8 supports external scripting, you could script things to get WakeOnLan to send the needed "magic packet" prior to backing up each client (assuming you get your router working properly to pass the magic packets to your WLAN). Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 assuming you get your router working properly to pass the magic packets to your WLAN And assuming the even less likely possibility that said packet will work with (all of) your wireless machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 Which is why I suggested testing with WakeOnLan before introducing the complexity of Retrospect. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocjlb Posted August 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Thanks for the info. I have since created proactive scripts, which appear to be working well for me.me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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