Sleep after Retrospect backup

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I’m new to AppleScript.

We use Retrospect to backup our systems at night. Unfortunately, Retrospect does not run if the systems are asleep in OS X, so our systems are set to “never” sleep. I would like to set up a script to put the system to sleep once Retrospect client confirms that the backup was successful (via an alert box).

How do I start this? Thanks.

#2

I use iBeeZz with Retro and it works great! It can wake and/or sleep your make on a schedule, as well as launch documents, applications and scripts on wake.

http://ibeezz.reboute.net/en/

#3

The Mac OS 9 client has that option, but I can’t find it in the OS X client and the documentation vaguely suggests that that option doesn’t exist. Hence the workaround…

#4

I’ve been using a program called WakeUp (http://www.coriolis.ch) which wakes the machines from sleep mode over the network. I run this program and the following script on the machine with Retrospect server. I use iCal to trigger the event 5 minutes before backup.


tell application "WakeUp"
	activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
	tell process "WakeUp"
		delay 1
		tell menu bar 1
			tell menu bar item "Edit"
				tell menu "Edit"
					click menu item "Select All"
					delay 1
					keystroke return
					delay 5
					keystroke return
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

tell application "WakeUp"
	quit
end tell