Re: Retrospect Client
Re: Retrospect Client
- Subject: Re: Retrospect Client
- From: David Oberst <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:18:36 -0700
on 3/14/01 6:57 PM, Andrew Moses at email@hidden wrote:
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Does anyone know how to tell Retrospect to quit an app on a remote volume
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when it begins backup of a remote client?
You can do something like:
tell application "AppName" of machine "MachineName"
quit
end tell
The main problems are that Program Linking must be enabled on the target
machine (FileSharing control panel). This also generates a
username/password request on the scripting machine, which is a pain for
automated backups.
What we do here is create a User on the target machine enabled for Program
Linking, whose name is the user name of the scripting machine. The
scripting machine must have a Keychain entry with the proper password, and
be open. There is a little utility out there called KeyChain AutoUnlock
(among others) which can automatically unlock the keychain at startup.
Of course, this setup assumes you don't have concerns about physical
security of the computers (the backup machine could be made to do all sorts
of nasty things with Program Linking access to the target). Ditto for
people on your Appletalk network who knew or could crack the Program Linking
password. We use this here to shut down a 4th Dimension database during the
backup cycle.
I've always wished that Retrospect _Client_ had the ability to run an
Applescript when it started/ended a backup.
--
David Oberst/NWT Bureau of Statistics/Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
email@hidden [Explore Canada's Arctic]
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