pbartoli Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I lately downloaded the 30-days demo for Retrospect 8 (Mac OSX), and have some questions for you: - I have installed the RetroClient app on different Macs, from old 350Mhz PPC G4 (OSX 10.4.11) to recent Intel Core 2 Duo (OSX 10.5.8): what happens is that different versions of the RetroClient are installed (ranging from version 6.1.107 to 6.3.027). Is it normal? - the RetroClient 6.3.027 is installed in a spanish version. Why? I never choose spanish... - in good old Retrospect 6 it was possible to instruct the application to shut down the Macs (on an ethernet network) when the backup was finished. Is it possible to do the same with Retrospect 8? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 - I have installed the RetroClient app on different Macs, from old 350Mhz PPC G4 (OSX 10.4.11) to recent Intel Core 2 Duo (OSX 10.5.8): what happens is that different versions of the RetroClient are installed (ranging from version 6.1.107 to 6.3.027). Is it normal? No. You probably didn't do the install correctly, need to uninstall old client first using the "uninstall" choice from the installer that installed that client. The current client is here (6.3.028): Retrospect downloads and updates - the RetroClient 6.3.027 is installed in a spanish version. Why? I never choose spanish... Who knows what you did. Uninstall, install the 6.3.028 client. See link above. - in good old Retrospect 6 it was possible to instruct the application to shut down the Macs (on an ethernet network) when the backup was finished. Is it possible to do the same with Retrospect 8? Not at present with the downloadable tools, but you can hack up the python script that did this for the old version to work with the current client. Names and locations change, but the logic is the same. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 in good old Retrospect 6 it was possible to instruct the application to shut down the Macs (on an ethernet network) when the backup was finished Are you talking about machines running the Retrospect Client software (on an ethernet network)? Because no version of Retrospect Mac OS X Client software has supported the "deferred shutdown" state that was available with the Retrospect Control Panel (cdev) for "Classic" Mac OS. Retrospect 5/6 had the option, but only for OS 9 clients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Dave, that's not true. I believe that Walt Reed (formerly of EMC Retrospect support, a truly nice and bright guy) wrote / modified a python script (cshutdown.py) that would do the job. It was a bit of a hack, but it worked. Here is the KB article: Can Retrospect shutdown my Macintosh OS X computer after the backup? A straightforward modification of the python script can work with the current client. It's just a few lines of code. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 "... it was possible to instruct the application to..." Ok, I'll accept the Python script as meeting the description above. It just wasn't a feature of the application+client software. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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