“big pond” You’re in Australia?
Anyway, this is a bit sophisticated a question for here, I think; though you never know. Sign up for the Macscript & Applescript Users mailing lists, then ask there. They have more readers than here, so someone may be able to answer your question.
Andrew, My 7.1 OS CD has Applescript 1.1 on it with a sample
droplet(a script which accepts drag-n-drop folders) called
‘Reconcile Files’ which synchronizes the files in two
folders. This means both folders contain the latest copy
of all files found in either. If your database is just in
a folder on your client Mac, and you can see an icon for
the server on your desktop. then all you have to do is
make an alias(File–>Make Alias) to the destination folder in your remote volume, drag it to the desktop( the finder will copy it), Then shift click on the two folder aliases, drag 'em to the droplet, and it copies the files. I’ve modified the script to just do a one-way copy to my archive.
Note that this is just a sample script, with no error checking in it. I’ve had to put ‘with timeout 36000… end timeout’ and try… on error. loops in it too. I understand that there are timers you could put into it
and schedule the backup, as well.
Ed
: Hi,
: Sorry to be a complete newbie, but i am looking for a Mac
: Script that will do a “Backup” of a database
: pushing it to one of our servers. From there it will
: be backed up under ArcserveIT.
: I am very much a newbie when it comes to MAC’s although i
: really want to get to know these machines better.
: Any information or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
: Kind regards,
: Andrew Locke
There’s a simple one in the June MacAddict projects section.