On 4/20/08 10:20 AM, "Demetri" <email@hidden> wrote:
If you want, you can do this all visually from a central system using
iCal and triggering AppleScript apps to execute at the servers over
the network. Each server then is controlled from the centralized
calendar and performs its own backup leveraging multiple processors
for multiple backups.
Um...no, and no. iCal is most DEFINITELY not the proper mechanism to
manage
scheduled backups for servers. That's what things like cron and
launchd are
for. Ical's background scheduler only runs in user space, and you'd
have to
set up mechanisms for the AppleScript to run the backups on multiple
machines.
This reeks of "not the way to do it" from a reliability standpoint.
