Re: Retrospect Client
Re: Retrospect Client
- Subject: Re: Retrospect Client
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 05:13:58 EST
Thanks Paul and Eshan...
Paul Dickinson <email@hidden> wrote:
<< Why not use FMP Server's own scheduled backup system to back up >>
Simply because we want to do more than backup the database files. We also
want to do a weekly archive of the entire machine. FMPServer always gives
some file-busy errors when it's running and also occasionally crashes during
an archiving operation. It's a known bug. This has been going on since at
least version 3 and Apple/Claris/FileMaker doesn't seem interested in
debugging it. Dantz hasn't been too helpful either.
Additionally, Ehsan Saffari <email@hidden> wrote:
<< Activate program linking on the remote machine and direct the existing
script to call the remote machine's FMPS. >>
It's a possible alternative, but it's not the most preferable and in informal
testing, it doesn't appear to be reliable. For some reason, machines that
appear in the chooser are not always accessible to an applet under 9.0.4 and
above. It may be our local network, but I haven't the time to follow up on it
at the switch-and-router level.
What I was hoping for was a way for a process on the client machine to tell
the FMP Server to quit when the Retrospect backup started. I'd like to avoid
always-on idle-time applets. I recall reading about such a solution last year
on this list & it seems like a common-enough problem, doesn't it?
I'm diving back into this problem on Thursday the 15th. Suggestions are
always appreciated.
-Andrew