Re: Newbie Backup Dialog
Re: Newbie Backup Dialog
- Subject: Re: Newbie Backup Dialog
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:49:49 +0200
At 14:08 +0200 29/05/01, John McMillan wrote:
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I have written a script that will backup a "work" folder on a Mac to an
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external Hard Drive each night. At the end of the script I have a dialog to
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display that the backup was completed successfully. My problem is that the
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dialog times out because there is no human intervention until the next
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morning. Is there some way of letting the operator know that the backup
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(Script) has been completed without having any intervention?
"display dialog" has a "giving up after" parameter. You could set it to a
huge value such as 1000000000. This would give more than 30 years to the
operator to see the message.
HTH
Emmanuel