Automatically print status/log?

[snakespeare]

Hey,

 

we have a rather nervous client here who wants to have total knowledge about what is happening in his office. There is an XServe running Retrospect 5.something on MacOS X Server 10.2.2 (upgrading to 10.2.6 only when anything requires it - never touch a running system).

 

Anyway, Retrospect for some reasons stopped making backups to the attached AIT drive, I came across that problem, we had to restart the server anyway and now it works fine again.

 

What the owner basically wants is a printed page in his laser printer each morning:

 

Backup OK, took 2 hours

 

or Backup OK with 2 errors (files do not match), took 3 hours, need cleaning tape soon

 

 

Something like that, basically a print from the new text in the log (Apple-L) you get every time a script runs.

 

Does anyone have an idea how to get this to work? I looked through Retrospects menus briefly but couldn't find any options for automated printing of logs.

 

Thanks for your help!

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Lars (just your average Mac admin :-p)

[CallMeDave]

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Does anyone have an idea how to get this to work?

 

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There should be lots of ways to use AppleScript to provide this sort of information. The Retrospect Event Handler has some pre-configured script calls that you could modify to email or print various pieces of information.

 

Or check out the "Export backup report" option in Preferences->Logging. You could use AppleScript to make a copy of this file into a share point the Boss uses, and he can open it in Excel (owners love Excel!) Or just make sure the owner has file sharing access to /Library/Preferences/Retrospect/ and he can access that document directly.

 

Dave