tonydicello Posted February 4, 2002 Report Share Posted February 4, 2002 I'm new to this forum so bear with me if has been asked recently. I would like to back-up my Mac running OS 9.1 to a network server. I have no problem backing up to the network server if I'm logged onto the server, but I'm looking for a way to have retrospect do this automatically. Does retrospect have built in capabilities to mount a network server do the back-up and log off the network? The network server does not have Retrospect installed, but the computer being backed up does. Help anyone Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mean_ogre Posted February 4, 2002 Report Share Posted February 4, 2002 You'd have to do some AppleScripting. Check out my post on "Strategy, Scripts and General Use" called "Retrospect+FileMaker". It has code that performs scheduled mounting of remote volumes along with explanations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrenaS Posted February 5, 2002 Report Share Posted February 5, 2002 Even easier: let Retrospect do it for you! While you have the volume mounted, go the Retrospect's Configure Volumes screen. Highlight the server, and from the volumes menu at the top of the screen, select "Configure" and enter your user name and password. Retrospect will automatically mount the server volume when required for backup and unmount it at the finish. Irena Solomon Dantz Tech Support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mean_ogre Posted February 5, 2002 Report Share Posted February 5, 2002 Cool, will it work for Retrospect 4.0 or only the newer versions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mean_ogre Posted February 5, 2002 Report Share Posted February 5, 2002 As a matter of fact it does work on Retrospect 4.0, however after Retrospect quit the remote volumes stayed connected. To unmount them I used the following code in my Retrospect Event Handler: on RetrospectQuit() tell application "Finder" put away (disks whose local volume is false) end tell end RetrospectQuit Maybe your Retrospect X does not need this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mean_ogre Posted February 7, 2002 Report Share Posted February 7, 2002 Retrospect 5.0 for Mac OS X wouldn't unmount remote volumes either. And the worst part -- Mac OS X' disks do not have the "remote volume" property. I had to just list all the disks to be unmounted -- that's so awkward, since they are mounted by another application! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrenaS Posted February 14, 2002 Report Share Posted February 14, 2002 The OS X Preview Version Read Me does say that duplicating and restoring to mounted network volumes are not supported in this release. The problem you are seeing may be related to that, and likely deserves a bug report. Irena Solomon Dantz Tech Support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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