Shutdown backup
Shutdown backup
- Subject: Shutdown backup
- From: Bernard Azancot <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 08:01:46 +0100
Hello !
First I wish you all a merry Christmas!
Second as being not only a real newbie, but a frenchie, hopelessly waiting
for Amazon to find and send me the out of press Danny Goodman's bible too, I
really need your Heeeelp !!!
To figure my actual position, imagine yourself starting Applescript in
French, and please remember Lafayette ;-)
My goal:
I want to perform a backup at shutdown, and ... shutdown.
Actually, I have a Quickeys script in the System Folder:Open at Shutdown
folder, that more or less does the job.
When I decide to shutdown, the script launches Retrospect and performs the
backup.
Then I have to choose Shudown menu item *again*, and the Mac shuts down, at
least... (Sometimes the shutdown operation is impossible, I get stuck,
needing to reset the Mac. It could be a problem with Mac OS 9.0.4. I do not
know. Has anyone had the same problem, or is it a problem with QK?)
Drawbacks:
- The QK script is not able to know if you want to shutdown or simply
restart. It launches even if you simply restart. A dialog is necessary to
confirm the decision to shutdown, in order to perform the backup.
- It does not shutdown by itself, at the end of the script.
- Shutdowm problem (already mentioned).
My questions:
- Can AS do this and how ?? (anxious mark) ;-)
- Is it possible to script the finder so that it performs a "smart copy"
avoiding to backup unchanged files (or do I have to launch Retrospect, as I
do actually) ?.
Fell free to write some code lines. I will learn them by heart. I promise
;-)
Sorry for those elementary questions, and for my bad english, as well.
"Ze" lost frenchie.