I have a Mac network with several machines that are all being
backed up, from a server, by Retrospect. The automatic backup runs
Retrospect scripts for each machine. Most of the time some of
these machines are out of the office (laptops) and of course,
Retrospect cant find them. In this case Retrospect issues a warning.
I would like to check for the presence of these machines, maybe a
ping. The result would allow me to script Retrospect accordingly.
In other words, is a particular machine is not on the network, I
would not try to back it up.
Does anyone have any ideas on this issue?
Thanks
Bob Cuilla
BLC Data Solutions
Orlando, Fl
Bob,
If the volume is available in the network then it is in the "Network"
disk.
This one liner should return the name of all available computers on
your Mac network.
To the the specific check it is another oneliner
tell application "Finder" to get name of every item of disk "Network"
