If QRecall ever gets in the way to doing something, you can always stop the capture and reschedule it to run later. It will leave an incomplete layer in the archive, but the next capture will still take advantage of the work that's been done and pick up where the last capture left off. (You can merge the two layers if you don't like incomplete layers in your archive.)

I think that explains it better than the manual! That's a great way of consolidating archives!

We're just south of Birmingham in the UK. You just had to rub it in and mention 'sunny'! Wettest summer ever! Thankfully we're all feeling very proud of the best Olympics ever and Andy Murray finally winning a major! Woohoo!

I shall post tomorrow's results to you guys after I've tested some interval archives.

I'm thinking of rotating 2 x 4TB FireWire 800 drives to perform the archives so I can take them offsite. Does this sound sensible in terms of best practice?

Thanks
James

OK.

I'll have to wait for this mammoth 700GB to backup first. It's done 260GB so far and has been running for 3hrs 55mins.

Once complete I'll replicate the Action to do intervals throughout the day.

Are you guys in the US I take it?

QRecall doesn't normally run actions when the user is logged out.

Forgive me, I meant users on the domain were not working on any of the file shares on the server. The server is where QRecall resides, archiving data to several FW800 drives.

Move the detail slider in the log window to the right. My guess is the missing actions will appear in the log.

Did that but nothing else to see: nice feature though!

QRecall only captures changes.

That explains it. No one was logged in at 2am.....funny that?

Just doing a backup of all the graphic design documents currently being actioned...over 700GB. Should give the quanta technology something to play with!

Still loving the software.....

Thanks,
James

I used the scheduler/'Action' last night for the first time.

I started an 'Interval' action at 10pm, for every 4 hours. So, then next being 2am, then 6am, 10am and so on.

I got in to work to find it saying the next action will be at 10am! Bingo, I thought. It's worked.

However, I open the archive and there is nothing in it to say anything happened after the initial 10pm action.

I restarted the action this morning and watched it! Even after that, it still shows nothing in the archive, nor in the logs window.

Am I missing something?

James

Excellent.

I'll look into Growl and Prowl.

Thanks for swift response!

James

Hi James,

Been testing QR out over the last 24hrs and I'm blown away with the speed and interface of the software. Remarkable job!

One feature which is lacking (or at least I cannot see it) is the ability to email an admin once an archive has completed.

In my previous job I used Areca, an open source bit of software which was slow compared with yours but did the job. It had the ability to email me when a job was complete and I'm kinda missing that at the moment.

Is there a chance this can be implemented?

Thanks,
another James!